A popular service in Japan lets you rent-a-person to just sort of be there with you, and do nothing else

From the Japanese daily newspaper The Mainichi:

Shoji Morimoto has been advertising himself as a person who can 'eat and drink, and give simple feedback, but do nothing more,' since June 2018, and has received over 3,000 requests. He has about 270,000 followers on Twitter. — Read the rest