We saw it play out during the COVID-19 epidemic and lockdown. Furloughed folks were stuck inside and went mad for something to do. A lot of people started hobbies. Some of those were lucrative enough to fuel the Great Resignation. We even got a taste of class consciousness.
Depressed people can lay on a couch all day and binge-watch The Sopranos all day for weeks. I once lay in bed for nine months. It wasn’t laziness. It was literal insanity.
Healthy able-bodied people who aren’t working a 40-hour-plus-commute day job look for ways to help. (Of note, people who work that much are too exhausted to parent or be civically engaged.) But in the US we’ve been conditioned since the Calvinists to believe if we’re not breaking our back then we’re lazy.
If you’re not doing the good work you want, consider your circumstances. I mean here in the States, most of us are overworked and going into debt just for food. In straits like this, it’s a moral achievement just to show kindness to your neighbor.
Laziness is a myth.
We saw it play out during the COVID-19 epidemic and lockdown. Furloughed folks were stuck inside and went mad for something to do. A lot of people started hobbies. Some of those were lucrative enough to fuel the Great Resignation. We even got a taste of class consciousness.
Depressed people can lay on a couch all day and binge-watch The Sopranos all day for weeks. I once lay in bed for nine months. It wasn’t laziness. It was literal insanity.
Healthy able-bodied people who aren’t working a 40-hour-plus-commute day job look for ways to help. (Of note, people who work that much are too exhausted to parent or be civically engaged.) But in the US we’ve been conditioned since the Calvinists to believe if we’re not breaking our back then we’re lazy.
If you’re not doing the good work you want, consider your circumstances. I mean here in the States, most of us are overworked and going into debt just for food. In straits like this, it’s a moral achievement just to show kindness to your neighbor.