The thing that bothers me is the presumption of laziness. There are plenty of people who are willing to work long and hard, yet are disenchanted with the explo

The thing that bothers me is the presumption of laziness. There are plenty of people who are willing to work long and hard, yet are disenchanted with the exploitative nature of work as it stands today. Just think of all of the people who would like to start their own businesses or work for themselves[0], yet cannot afford to do so or cannot afford to absorb the risk. Part of the reason may be the implicit lessons we receive from a very young age. We must always be cautious of people who try to take advantage of us. It is a valuable less, because it is true, yet we seem to take it the wrong way. Rather than dealing with the criminal, the people who would defraud us, we treat everyone as criminal. [0] There is a particular group of peoples in my country who are often portrayed as being lazy or exploiting the system. In many, if not most, cases this prejudice is just plain wrong. Since many of those people live outside of the system, they perform types of work that many of us would not even consider: hunting for their own food (and everything that involves), cutting their own fuel wood, hauling their own garbage to the dump, and much more. None of that work involves a paycheck, so it doesn't count. That attitude is just plain wrong. (Not to mention the other problems with prejudices, such as it discounting those who do function within the rest of western society.)