Why we need a new word for “lazy”
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- But if we only have a morally judgmental word like “lazy” to refer to a dislike of work, then that screws up your decision process. It becomes hard to think objectively about the questions in the previous paragraph. Instead, you feel pressure to choose a life that involves a lot of work, because that “should” be fine with you, even if it isn’t. Or you feel pressure to self-modify to become more tolerant of work — even if that’s not very tractable for you, or even it’s actually possible to get the things you want without working hard. Or you still end up choosing the optimal life for you, but you feel unnecessarily guilty about the fact that you chose to optimize for avoiding work.