• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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    2 hours ago

    People don’t want to work and are lazy is a bullshit talking point even older than 1894.

    The first ever modern self-help book ever published (literally called self-help) was made a man with a lifelong history of business and financial failure and yet also still believed that it was no legislation or social assistance, but personal ‘morals’ and ethics are what gets people out of poverty and into comfort.

    It was bullshit then and bullshit now. It is such a dark realization that what causes so much quality of life increases is not productivity or technology but legislation and policy.