After defining meaning subjectivism and contrasting it with five logically possible alternative positions on meaning in life, Hauskeller discusses what is commonly considered to be the most obvious problem with meaning subjectivism, which is that it has implications that are so counter-intuitive that it cannot possibly be true. If it were true, the argument goes, we would have to accept that people who live lives that are clearly utterly pointless and worthless—such as “grinning excrement eaters”, hazily passive “blobs”, grass counters, or the mythological Sisyphus—could well live meaningful lives provided they enjoy, or are passionate about, what they are doing. Hauskeller rejects this argument on the grounds that such extreme cases are entirely hypothetical and falsely suggest that the real lives of real people can ever be like that.