The lazi lie is the idea that there are just some people who need to be forced to work harder, because otherwise they won't u. It's a really dious idea, but it's something that is still built into almost all of our social welfare programms and how people talk about them. The puritans had just kind of fascinating and twisted, in a lot of ways, beliefs about human nature. They would make furniture that was designed to actually kind of contort babies and into as adult a posture as possible.