The year is 2035, the age of mental labor automation. People subscribe to memberships for "brain gyms", places that offer various means of mental stimulation to train cognitive skills like critical thinking and memory retention.

Common activities provided by these gyms include fixing misconfigured printers, telling a virtual support customer to turn their PC off and back on again, and troubleshooting mysterious NVIDIA driver issues (the company has gone bankrupt 5 years ago, but their hardware is still in great demand for frustration tolerance training).