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> Speculation! Slacking individuals probably got turned into food more often than not, until we discovered agriculture. Speculation, followed by your immediate

• crawfordcomeaux 8y ago
  Was about to make a case around how indigenous cultures work, but you nailed it. I'll go a step further: I think the future holds for the world an emergent culture of compassionate giving. A world designed to be loving as a first principle. In that world, "slacking" is what you do when you let out some rope. Or it's a word that old people use to signal when they're either having a flashback, have chosen to carry on judgmental ways of the past, and/or are triggered. Unless we're talking about the loving world beyond the point where all the slacker-haters died off.