
Born from a viral essay, "Laziness Does Not Exist" dismantles productivity culture's crushing expectations. Dr. Devon Price's work became a pandemic-era lifeline, challenging our obsession with busyness while sparking debate about who gets permission to rest in our achievement-driven society.
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Have you ever felt guilty for taking a break? Convinced that your worth is measured by your output? You're not alone. We live in a society that has weaponized productivity, turning rest into a moral failing and exhaustion into a badge of honor. Devon Price's groundbreaking work exposes what they call "the Laziness Lie" - a toxic belief system teaching us that our value equals our productivity, that we can't trust our own limits, and that there's always more we should be doing. This ideology permeates everything from how parents speak to children about homeless people ("they're just lazy") to how we judge ourselves when illness slows us down. Even the most accomplished among us aren't immune. Successful writer Eric Boyd, despite his packed schedule, constantly takes on side hustles out of fear that slowing down means losing everything. Paradoxically, those working hardest often feel the most "lazy" - a cruel irony of this pervasive mindset. Our obsession with productivity didn't emerge from nowhere. It's baked into America's foundation, beginning with the Puritans who believed hard work signaled divine salvation. This conveniently eliminated sympathy for struggling people - their failure simply revealed God hadn't chosen them. During America's slave era, the wealthy enslaving class pushed a productivity-obsessed Christianity teaching that suffering was righteous and that enslaved people would be rewarded in Heaven for being docile and diligent. Those who resisted were diagnosed with "runaway slave disorder" - literally pathologizing the desire for freedom.
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