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> so people who aren't doing it should start

But they won't. It's safe to say that lazy people are good at being lazy and will find a way to be lazy no matter what system they're in.

Pretending we can build a system that eradicates laziness in an exercise in futility. It's better to accept the fact that a fixed percentage of people are only going to take while most others give (and take), and stop wasting the enormous overhead trying to figure out which is which.




>Pretending we can build a system that eradicates laziness in an exercise in futility.

Not at all. You know what eradicates laziness? Hunger.


I'd argue hunger promotes stealing more than eradicates laziness.




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