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Start here! These are probably the most talked-about essays on the topic.
- The Abolition of Work by Bob Black (1985) | listen
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- In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (1932) | listen
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It's both, not either/or.
We don't live paycheck-to-paycheck because we're lazy. It's the fucking economy.
It's not the economy. The U.S. has one of the highesr production rates in the world, and one of the highest GDPs in the world.
The money is absolutely there in the economy to make ends meet for us all, the economy is more than healthy enough for it. But that wealth doesn't go to us, it goes to the 1%.
It's the distribution of wealth/ownership that's the problem.
Maybe not entirely the economy, but food costs have gone way up in the past few years due to inflation and it is making a big strain on a lot of people. I agree that distribution of wealth is a huge problem, but you can't disregard the economy as well. High production rates and GDP don't translate into affordable groceries.
It’s not inflation. It’s coordinated price increases. See the chicken article that was just published.
Exactly. The money from that "inflation" isn't going towards the production of that food, it is going into the pockets of the rich. The wealth is there, its just going to the wrong place.
Amen! I don't have 4 degrees and still work 3 jobs to make ends meet because I'm lazy. Most people I know are the same. Apparently some people don't understand statistics or the bell curve.
You think 150 million people in this country are just too lazy to make ends meet?
Some of them yes others may not have the intellectual/mental capability or physical issues that prevent it as well. Most people who want and work to get out of poverty will get to the lower middle class which is a better life than 99% of humans have ever had.
That’s not what I asked, nor was it what the person I was responding to implied.
Uh yes it was?
“You think 150 million people in this country are just too lazy to make ends meet?”
To which I replied yes with some caveats as your statement is too broad and meant to steer a conversation into a specific direction without addressing other issues that do a disservice to mentally disabled or handicapped people that are perceived as being lazy when they typically are harder working in my experience.
I think everyone is lazy.
Lazyness is just greed applied to time.
Laziness is the natural way that mammals live. Our ancestors chilled in trees most of the time, but we expect modern humans to work at least 40 hours a week
I think that’s a really sad, cynical way to look at the human condition.
Perhaps while viewed through a limited scope.
But it's also the precursor for innovation, and the drive behind automation. Without it we'd still be plowing fields by hand for a significantly smaller yield.
I just still don't see how greed has anything to do with it.
You can lead a horse to water🤷♂️