"It all goes back to basically trust and compassion," he says. "We can stop assigning moral value to some one based on what they do or don't do, because it just really doesn't make sense." He adds that extending that same compassion to marginalized groups who are stigmatized as being lazy has a similar clarifying impact.
Are you lazy? Social psychologist Devon Price doesn’t think so. In their provocative new book, “Laziness Does Not Exist,” Devon invites us to imagine a world where we stop judging other people for being lazy, stop shaming ourselves for being unproductive, and start realizing that doing less is not a moral failure.