Laziness Isn’t An Allergy to Effort — It’s a Sign of a Pretty Good Life

Why sloth isn’t the “gateway sin” anymore

A portrait of Al Pacino in Scarface. Commercially licensed by bixentro via Flickr.

The fear of laziness is rooted deeply in the Western culture.

Dante imagined hell as a place where people are forced to do the work they were too lazy to do in their lifetimes. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is a castaway who turns a deserted island into a…