What Do We Do About "Lazy People"?

 What do we do about a person who doesn’t want to participate and contribute his/her share of the basic support? Do we kick ‘em out, threaten them with no place at the table, deny them privileges? This is always a very difficult and sensitive issue to deal with. Perhaps it helps to get a different perspective for a moment. Let’s consider, for example, that, in today’s society, there are many people holding so-called respectable jobs, who seem to be very productive members of society. And yet if we take a closer look we find that many of these people are producing useless pieces of junk or providing "services" that do not "serve" (or actually undermine the health of the planet and culture). In addition, they are using up our precious natural resources, contributing to the waste stream, and polluting our environment in the process.

So, these people are certainly going through the motions of being productive members of society but is society really any better off for their contributions, or are we in fact, worse off?

Could it be, ironically speaking, that the person who sits around and does absolutely nothing, is not the problem we should be most concerned with, but rather, all those people who go about business as usual motivated only by profit-making, who are unconsciously destroying this beautiful planet, while producing nothing of real value?

In a communal society the person who sits around doing nothing is missing out on all the fun, and is a rare occurrence. The utter joy and deep sense of pleasure generated by a sharing, creative and positive group of people with a purpose, is nearly irresistible. 

So instead of coming down on these people we would try to help, love and lift them regardless of what they do, or don’t do. As the old saying goes, "You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar.”