Perhaps the 1% struggles to recognize the overwhelming example of humanity more or less defines humanity. Even if the 1% were truly better in every way, in some hypothetical fantasy, the 99% would simply exist according to nature, or according to their genetics and environment. There’s nothing inherently scummy or lazy about that. It’s purely subjective to describe them that way.

My experience is that most people work very hard and believe they don’t work hard enough.

The reader has to consider that perhaps this outlook says a lot more about you than it says about anyone else. As the writer, perhaps that will help you reflect on what you're saying.

Worker 9139262 Cease posting on internet discussion sites and return to your scheduled wageslavery

The most productive and effective I've been was for my own projects. Just because I procrastinate for 3 weeks and more at a time, does not mean I easily average on 36h weeks because the high productivity I have otherwise.

If anything, not having a regular job made me less lazy.

The fine line between busyness and industrious-ness. Our laziness is a feature to optimize existence itself.

Start treating them like "humans" and they might be less "lazy" ...

Conserving energy is the general rule of biology, violated only for very specific reasons.

If I only had a downvote button… [sung to the tune of the scarecrow’s “If I Only Had a Brain,” from The Wizard of Oz]

What a sad outlook on life.

When wage theft is so widespread, it's hard to get people to care.