>but the current social media trends are pushing people toward thinking laziness is a virtue, or that working hard on anything is for suckers. Laziness as a ha

>but the current social media trends are pushing people toward thinking laziness is a virtue, or that working hard on anything is for suckers. Laziness as a habit that damages your life or ruins it for others who depend on you isn't a virtue, but strategic laziness in the sense of not wasting your precious time on idiotic make-work or needlessly difficult things is indeed a virtue. We have one single precious life with however many unpredictable years there are to it, a quantity of time that we can never in advance know the length of, and we should make a philosophy of spending large parts of it working hard on things we don't enjoy just for the sake of doing so? If someone wants to work hard regardless, despite all the above, they always can, but it's better that they should do this once they first arrange their life so that the hard work in question is freely dedicated to what they take satisfaction from. I disagree entirely with the implicit emphasis you place on the work aspect of "finding gold". If success can be had more easily, it should be pursued that way and is no less deserved as a result. The time we have absolutely should be spent actually doing as much as possible of what we want to do while maximizing the benefit of any work we have to do. How many generations of authority figures have preached a dogma of "working hard" for its own sake, for the particularly cynical reason of wanting to keep another under their thumb, for their benefit.