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> Almost nobody can handle being that much of a lazy, sleazy piece of crap. What are you talking about? Entire countries have been doing it for decades before
by golergka 5y ago
> Almost nobody can handle being that much of a lazy, sleazy piece of crap.
What are you talking about? Entire countries have been doing it for decades before ending up bankrupt.
- acdha 5y agoDo you have examples? This sounds rather a lot like a racist stereotype unless you’re using “entire countries” to mean something more like corrupt elites misdirecting people who don’t have alternatives.
- golergka 5y agoUSSR, for one. Are you accusing me of being racist against myself?
- acdha 5y agoThat was actually the country I had in mind with the second part of my comment because the emigrants I’ve known always made it sound like the problem was squandering productivity rather than innate laziness — if your boss is corrupt and incompetent, and you don’t work harder because you know there will be no benefit from doing so, “lazy” doesn’t seem accurate. A similar story revolves around the American South. Southerners used to be stereotyped as lazy until indoor plumbing & antiparasitic drugs eradicated hookworm and air conditioning mitigated the climate’s impact on office productivity. “Lazy” was, well, a lazy way to characterize a more complicated situation.