[sgillen]

So many tools take a job that was possible without the tool and make it much easier, and in that sense many tools are “for lazy people”.

Examples include: autocomplete, spell check, version control, undo, in-house running water, washing machines, Zoom.

Just to name a few random examples, the list is obviously gigantic.

[kortilla]

Zoom is not for lazy people. The main use case is to allow people to have meeting who could not otherwise. The percentage of zoom users who could meet otherwise is vanishingly small.

Making a tool that helps people do work more efficiently is not targeting lazy people. A person is not lazy if they want to do a job more efficiently and eliminate wasted effort. A person is lazy if they don’t want to do work at all.

A smart writer uses spellcheck because people make mistakes and spellcheck is a lot cheaper than a proofreader. A lazy writer doesn’t bother writing in the first place.

[np_tedious]

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