endangered-justice-seeker:It’s easier to think of someone as “lazy” than to face the fact that schoo
endangered-justice-seeker:It’s easier to think of someone as “lazy” than to face the fact that school costs too much, that better jobs are inaccessible, that childcare is unaffordable, that people are forced to work so hard for so little that there’s no way they could have enough energy to attempt schooling or finding better work, and that what we give to people who can’t work is insufficient to the point of being shameful. I could say that calling people lazy is, in itself, lazy, but it’s not just an intellectual shortcut. It’s a defense mechanism.Most of the people I know who have been told they were lazy have ended up diagnosed with executive dysfunction. Huh. It’s almost like people would mostly like to do stuff, but sometimes they can’t because other shit gets in the way. -- source link