"Of course not..." The answer was obvious. If Yukino Yukinoshita had calmed down and stopped fixating on a dead end, Sogo Doma would not have needed to answer at all. He shook his head. "The fisherman would regret his laziness. He would regret not listening to others' advice. He would regret not saving money sooner..."
"What exactly are you trying to say?" Once a story took on the stink of money, the second daughter instinctively wanted to avoid it.
"Yukinoshita, don't you think the fisherman's way of thinking has quite a market? We could categorize him as the majority..." Sogo Doma answered somewhat beside the point.
"The majority?"
"That's right. If the fisherman represents the majority, then that professional manager's approach is actually the same as yours, Yukinoshita. He wanted the fisherman to save money and develop himself, while you want the majority to work hard and improve themselves. So, is there anything wrong with working hard?"
"There's nothing wrong with working hard..."
"Correct. There's nothing wrong with effort. Yet the fisherman in the story used a self-justifying line of logic to leave the professional manager speechless. Likewise, the majority would use their own self-justifying logic to sneer at those trying to persuade them. So who is right?" Sogo Doma asked again.
"Of course it's the manager. You said so yourself, if..." The second daughter frowned again.
"Stop..." But the moment she spoke, Sogo Doma cut her off. "You said it yourself—it's an if. So let's suppose another possibility. The fisherman never encountered any situation where he urgently needed money. Couldn't he just keep lying around lazily, using self-justifying logic to mock others, to mock everyone else working hard?"
"Why would hard-working people care? Rather, how could they possibly have time to care about the fisherman's thoughts and mockery?" Utaha