Reading Challenge: Disability

Laziness is a concept isn't actually a thing. Someone -- probably a Christian -- invented the concept long ago to glorify hard work by demonizing people's need and desire to save energy, and then capitalists took the concept and ran with it. If someone does something "lazy" it's because they need to do it for some legitimate reason, even if they aren't aware of the reason themselves. Something as simple as "saving a little time or energy makes me feel better because the days are long and life is hard, and this brings me a little joy" is 100% valid. So is "I'm tired" or "I'm exhausted" or even just "I don't wanna." Human beings like doing things, they like contributing, with very rare exceptions (mostly people like the one-percenters who live entirely off other people's labor. But even most of them still do things with their time, and some of them still do art or do work.) Humans used to spend most of our time in leisure because hunting and gathering is a super easy lifestyle once you know how to do it, and takes very little everyday effort to maintain. Even people who did weaving or other labor-intensive tasks of a similar nature would talk with each other while working, and such tasks really only needed to be done irregularly since they were only making enough for their own family or tribe to use.

Besides which, society has no end of ways to make life a little easier on everyone. Is it "lazy" to wash your clothes in a washing machine rather than beating them on a rock in the river? Is it lazy to take a car or bus somewhere rather than walk for miles every day to get to work? Is it lazy to buy butter rather than churning your own? Is it lazy to buy or rent housing rather than building your own cabin in the woods?

Funny how something that saves time and energy is only "lazy" when someone wants to make somebody out to be morally in the wrong for doing it.