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Are Poor People Lazy?
- charcircuit 5y ago>The struggle just to survive is so intense that it leaves people drained of energy and hope and the lazy option is to just continue to do the same thing. You can be lazy while still working crazy hours because you can be lazy about doing any particular action.
- smt88 5y agoFor your comment to be true, you need to use a definition of the word "lazy" that is unrecognizable to every other English speaker. Someone can't work themselves to the bone and still be lazy. If you're working all the time just to survive, you aren't lazy for failing to work an extra few hours doing... whatever you think it is that poor people can do to suddenly become financially stable.
- necovek 5y agoA great way to redefine "lazy" while making sure no empathy interferes. While I have lived a sort of privileged life, I can at least believe what others are saying if I cannot truly feel it. Even Jack London's ambitious protagonist in Martin Eden notes something of the sort: "I could study day-in, day-out for 17h a day, but after 10h of hard, physical labour, all I want to is to lie down and do nothing" (not an exact quote: I am paraphrasing from memory). As soon as you add dependents (maybe your frailing parents or grandparents or maybe a spouse and kids), it gets even harder.
- beardyw 5y agoThis is not about crazy hours. It is accepting bullying from above, insults and demeaning behaviour from the public, horrible working conditions, dangerous practices, no consideration for your family life or sickness or bereavement just to keep your underpaid job. That is what drains people of hope.