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It’s funny, but no one seems to be championing laziness and creative loafing as a way to make a living except Fred Gratzon:

Unfortunately people have bought into the concept of hard work so completely, they are blinded by it and they have sold their souls for skimpy paychecks instead of looking for better, easier, lazier ways that are many times more lucrative. It’s sad because it is so preventable.

Fred, I couldn’t agree more. We have this enormous opportunity to create new wealth and lazy revenue by harnessing all of the technological innovations of the last few decades, to snatch back leisure time and control of our own financial destinies from the bosses, to fulfill the promise of “the industrial future” where George Jetson complains so bitterly about working an extra fifteen minutes at his two hour job, but no. We must work hard, we must have high blood pressure, we must sacrifice everything human and noble about ourselves for paltry sums.

Hard work and long hours don’t change the world - messing around in the garage all day, drinking beer and playing with new tools and technologies changes the world. Those who belong to the cult of hard work resent this enormously, since they feel that their hard work is the road of the righteous, so to speak. Because of this, every time an innovation, or a set of innovations comes along that could radically alter the way people in general interact with work and view productivity, they hijack it.

Laziness isn’t the ability to do three times as much as the next guy in the same amount of time; laziness is about getting done the same amount of work as the next guy while still in bed. No one in the Cult of Work wants you to think too much about that, though, since almost everyone who does eventually comes to the conclusion that what the cult calls work is not only unnecessary, it is archaic and pointless.

But hey, what would the world be without dinosaurs to watch die?