There is no escape from Dario's basement. It's best just to accept our fate. Rub the lotion on our skin or else we get the hose again.

Perhaps it will make it easier to cope with? Fighting something beyond your control is pretty exhausting

So you can pay rent?

In most workplaces, when supervisor/boss says "we need you working over here now; you start tomorrow", you either embrace or quit. Again, nothing fundamentally different.