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The effort continues exactly as long as the ego funding it does.
means The quality of being completely useless or ineffective, no matter how much effort goes in.
from From Latin 'futilis,' meaning leaky or untrustworthy — originally describing a vessel so poorly made it couldn't hold water. The Romans used it literally for pots that leaked, then figuratively for people who couldn't keep a secret (it just spilled out of them), and eventually for anything that pours out effort without ever holding a result. The uselessness was always about leaking away, not just failing.
- origin
- latin futilis meant leaky vessel, pours out everything
- classic case
- sisyphus, boulder, hill, repeat forever
- office version
- reply-all threads trying to schedule one meeting
- secret twist
- camus insisted you must imagine sisyphus happy