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by jojobas 1056 days ago
You'd be surprised. After all, if we were not lazy we'd be still digging the ground with our bare hands. "How do I get X while doing less work" is a kind of laze that defines human.
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The engineer’s three virtues: Laziness, Impatience, Hubris

https://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris

laziness can be a good thing! Real lazy people put in a lot of effort to achieve the same outcome working less!
Procrastination too. I've had things go off the rails because procrastination wasn't allowed to manifest opportunities.
Sounds as though you've read the page before.
> "How do I get X while doing less work"

And we'd still be using neanderthal tools if everyone just copy-pasted previous work.