My therapist tells me everyone is doing their best, even the housemate that leaves dirty dishes all over the house and never flushes the toilet. I grapple with this on the regular.
This is exactly it. We never know what each other is struggling with that limits their capacity to do things, we don’t know what supports they need to succeed.
In the USSR work is a duty and a matter of honor for every able-bodied citizen, in accordance with the principle: “He who does not work, neither shall he eat”.
Article twelve of the 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union
There is another similar quote that I think fits your roommates situation.
“Somebody has said that dust is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people gone astray in a direction that does not answer to their temperament nor to their capacities. In reading the biography of great men, we are struck with the number of “idlers” among them. They were lazy so long as they had not found the right path; afterwards they became laborious to excess. Darwin, Stephenson, and many others belonged to this category of idlers.” - Peter Kropotkin
Since they don’t seem interested in the answer, I’ll ask.
How do you know?
My ADHD brain is very interested. Is it because of the broken dopamine reward pathways causing us to gravitate towards tasks with more immediate gratification and things like pattern recognition being incredibly well suited to those kind of tasks? I bet it’s got something to do with that. Ooh learning is exciting!
A reminder to people that there is no such thing as a lazy person. Only a person who’s work is not valued
Edit: erased “under capitalism” at the end. The problem of certain work or skills not being valued is not limited to just capitalism
My therapist tells me everyone is doing their best, even the housemate that leaves dirty dishes all over the house and never flushes the toilet. I grapple with this on the regular.
This is exactly it. We never know what each other is struggling with that limits their capacity to do things, we don’t know what supports they need to succeed.
Some people are just lazy and shitty.
For example: Trump supporters are mentally lazy and shitty. We don’t go around excusing them for their shitty beliefs just because “they tried hard.”
We don’t excuse anti-vaxxers because they “tried hard doing their own research.”
I wish reality lived up to our egalitarian values but it just doesn’t.
Article twelve of the 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union
Do you think this is a gotcha or something? I’m an anarchist, not a marxist.
No? Just saying it’s not exclusive to capitalism
Thats fair. I guess its more so just hierarchy in general. When people are in power they get to decide what is an isnt valued.
I went and fixed my original comment
Also I apologize for immediately assuming that you were trying to be rude
Wow… That sounds… fun…
It also sounds like what you’d expect an oligarch-run slave farm to sound like.
I’m shocked people turned against this. Shocked, I tell you.
My roommate hard at work drinking energy drinks and playing HoI4
There is another similar quote that I think fits your roommates situation.
“Somebody has said that dust is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people gone astray in a direction that does not answer to their temperament nor to their capacities. In reading the biography of great men, we are struck with the number of “idlers” among them. They were lazy so long as they had not found the right path; afterwards they became laborious to excess. Darwin, Stephenson, and many others belonged to this category of idlers.” - Peter Kropotkin
Undiagnosed ADHD, their brain is meant to be hunting and gathering
Ask me how I know
Since they don’t seem interested in the answer, I’ll ask.
How do you know?
My ADHD brain is very interested. Is it because of the broken dopamine reward pathways causing us to gravitate towards tasks with more immediate gratification and things like pattern recognition being incredibly well suited to those kind of tasks? I bet it’s got something to do with that. Ooh learning is exciting!