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Question 65: Is it a character flaw to be lazy in an exploitive system?

[35] Hans: Don't be Lazy!   KnotKarlmarKs makes a good observation in [30]: market forces tend to turn laziness against the individual who is lazy. This is probably why you see more workaholics than lazy people in our society.

But in capitalism, if the worker manages to be lazy on the job, possibly the capitalist suffers more than the worker. Then exploitation is no longer working so smoothly. Therefore doesn't being lazy on the job diminish exploitation, and isn't that a good thing?

KnotKarlmarKs does not think so. I had to read [30] several times in order to understand it; it was not expressed very clearly, although he gives several interesting arguments. I personally would argue along the following lines, and although this is not what KnotKarlmarKs wrote, he would probably agree with at least part of it: being lazy on the job is an arrangement with a bad system. It is the attempt to find a niche which makes the system more comfortable for yourself, while capitalism goes on producing untold suffering, ravishing the environment, and keeping the majority of people on the earth in utter poverty. I think today it is a moral imperative to fight against capitalism, not to arrange yourself with it.

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