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Actually it is, and only a very strict and damaging protestant work ethic would tell you otherwise. Oh, you meant that those poor workaholics shouldn't exhaust
by TuringTest 5y ago
Actually it is, and only a very strict and damaging protestant work ethic would tell you otherwise.
Oh, you meant that those poor workaholics shouldn't exhaust themselves by overexerting over too much work? With that I can agree. But taxing those producing the most so as not to leave behind those who have received fewer gifts, inheritance or good contacts? That's how you build a civilization. If only because those producing the most are also those receiving the most from their peers upfront.
- dahfizz 5y agoImplicit in your position is a lack of agency. The high producers only produce highly because of receiving gifts from their peers. And the low producers are those who have not received enough gifts. You leave no room for agency, competency, motivation. OP explicitly mentions that he just wants to be lazy....
- TuringTest 5y agoI linked elsewhere to an essay showing how 'lazy' or 'idle' aren't insults, but mere synonyms for 'efficient' and 'purposeful'. I don't get how you deduce that there's no room for agency. You seem to confound that with the different amounts of leverage that people with widely different origins get; those coming from a more resourceful starting point will produce more, regardless of the actual effort they put in.