Doing nothing when poor: Lazy
Doing nothing when rich: Successful
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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Yes, but also "laziness" isn't actually a thing that exists:
https://medium.com/@beardedbestie/the-ableist-roots-of-laziness-9eaaf3026d6c
https://fortitudeandflow.com/you-cant-be-lazy-laziness-does-not-exist/
Dr. Devon Price, a social psychologist and author of Laziness Does Not Exist, argues that what we call laziness is often a symptom of unmet needs — physical, emotional, or otherwise.
For example:
- A 2018 study published in Frontiers in Psychology found that procrastination, often conflated with laziness, is more about emotional regulation than a lack of discipline. People procrastinate not because they’re lazy but because they’re avoiding feelings of stress or inadequacy associated with the task.
- Research in disability studies highlights how fatigue and burnout, common in chronic illness and neurodivergence, are often dismissed as “laziness” by abled society. This dismissal contributes to harmful stereotypes that ignore the lived realities of disabled people.
This rings true to me
Yup, same here.
Kropotkin touched on this in a book he published in 1892, even.
Somebody said that dirt is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people gone astray in a direction that does not answer to their temperament nor to their capacities.
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