Why is prejudice against lazy people still acceptable?

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I have an above average (mean) number of legs. If you include all the people with 1 or 0 legs, in the numbers, the average must be under 2.

Most people have more than the mean-average number of legs. Most people have the same number of legs as the mode (well, that's tautological I guess)

I'm lazy. It got me into programming. I'd rather put in the 'hard effort' first, to make sure my life is easier, and lazier, afterwards. One of the first things I wrote as a teenager was a program that would answer quadratic equations for me, and write out the working out.

Work smarter, not harder. Efficiency is found in laziness.

stuartJo1989

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Work smarter, not harder. Efficiency is found in laziness.

I agree with everything you say, except for the fact that you state that what you do is out of "laziness".

Laziness to me is more about doing things like:

- Shirking on work and leaving it for colleagues to do
- Not doing the work at all
- Staying on the dole and getting paid to do nothing

I wouldn't class what you do as being lazy, even if it *looks like* laziness from a third party perspective.

[Deleted User]

I'd reply properly.. but I can't be bothered

I do think some people are inherently lazy (I have one lazy son, one really motivated son) but it's a characteristic that can be worked on and improved.

Silvertabby

I'm sure there was a case a few years ago when a would-be employer was told by the Job Centre that they couldn't advertise for 'a hard working person' because it discriminated against those who weren't able to 'work hard' for any reason.