100% agree people are as moral as technology makes it easy to be People have slavery without qualms for tens of thousands of years and then "somehow" had a moral epiphany ... right around the time steam engines became useful. Curious coincidence !https://twitter.com/EdLatimore/status/1198966424032743425 …
> Or the un-lazy entities capture the calories from the lazy, and let them do the starving. well, right, this is close to my argument about why slavery exists
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It's also close to what Marx and Engels and Kautsky were talking about with "surplus value" and "alienated labor." (Though many Marxists fail to see a point Marx made early: the greater the distance through which labor is alienated, the larger the surplus becomes)
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I largely agree.
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will ponder this
> Is laziness a psychological need
I'd argue that it's the result of evolution in a resource-constrained universe. Lazy entities survive and maybe reproduce ; Un-lazy entities fritter away calories and starve.