The NS Man's Dilemma

I am sure many people have heard of The Prisoner's Dilemma. While at reservist, I thought of something new - The NS Man's Dilemma.

The NS Man's Dilemma is much simpler than the Prisoner's Dilemma, because it only involves one individual (the latter involves two individuals and shows why they will not cooperate, even if it is in their best interests to do so). For more information, you can read up at Wikipedia here.

The NS Man's Dilemma is presented as such - in many cases, the NS man ends up slacking and wasting his time during reservist. Instead of doing something productive (okay this is subjective), he has to stay in camp, with no access to his smartphone (which means no news, no Facebook, etc - unless he brings in a non-camera smartphone, which is quite rare). Most of the time, NS men end up hiding somewhere trying to look inconspicuous. He would very much like to spend his time doing something else (or at the least, go home). But if he were to highlight to the higher-ups in camp that he is bored and not doing something useful, the odds are overwhelmingly stacked against his favour - that he will be tasked to help out with "sai-kang" (literally translated to shit holes). So he keeps quiet and remains status quo, while trying to make the best out of his situation.

Now that I think about it, the NS Man's Dilemma can actually be applied to many other scenarios in real life. Hmm...