I'm working on a skit of sorts that mocks all the DIE nonsense that has exploded into the mainstream these past few years, and it just hit me that laziness will eventually be classified as a disease similar to what happened with addiction.
So when you ask why your lazy brother who sleeps until 4pm each day and doesn't work should have the same things that a 90hr per week truck driver has, they'll claim the "The Science" is clear. Your brother is a lazy piece of shit through no fault of his own. He was born with a disease and there's nothing he can do about it!
I know this isn't terribly interesting, and this is already sort of happening with disability cons, but does anyone have any other predictions for the crazy things we'll see from field of psychiatry in the coming years?
I think overworking will be an illness and people will demand special compensation to force them to relax.
All that said, I get sort of tired of some of the uses of lazy. I had a lot of people tell me I was lazy because I didn't pick up this job, or work so hard I couldn't think straight. Almost every person who told me that has lost their job and had their position lost to tech progress. I've discovered that lazy is often being said because the person doesn't know or want to face the difficulties of the area. I was lazy because I couldn't work two jobs at the same time. I was lazy for not taking a job that paid less and had less upward momentum.
Are there lazy people? Sure. But I get pretty tired of it's misuse.
People are so afraid of conflict they lose the ability to say no. This in turn creates this warped perception of reality in which people who can say no appear lazy, or like they are creating problems. When often, the problem started from higher up and your boss/corporation is using peer pressure and that fear of conflict to increase your workload without increasing your pay.
We are already seeing that overwork classification brewing, as most "antiwork" people and even most communists are people so terrified of having to stand up for themselves and set boundaries that they simply implode into begging daddy government to do it for them.