You'd be surprised. After all, if we were not lazy we'd be still digging the ground with our bare hands. "How do I get X while doing less work" is a kind of laze that defines human.

The engineer’s three virtues: Laziness, Impatience, Hubris

https://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris

laziness can be a good thing! Real lazy people put in a lot of effort to achieve the same outcome working less!

Sounds as though you've read the page before.

Procrastination too. I've had things go off the rails because procrastination wasn't allowed to manifest opportunities.

> "How do I get X while doing less work"

And we'd still be using neanderthal tools if everyone just copy-pasted previous work.

Reminds me of Ron Burgundy!

Absolutely. Reminded me of Chris Pratt's famous P&R flu scene ad lib "Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems".

Many years ago I had someone copy and paste two pages from an Oracle manual, complete with formatting, in response to an e-mailed screening question about MySQL that required a one line answer. It was just an initial screening where we had relatively low expectations and halfway expected a lot of people to search - letting a few too many people through was ok, we just wanted to whittle down the pool.

But after that we realised the screening worked even better when we input random sentences from the answers into Google and used it to weed out the people who were not just dishonest enough to give a verbatim answer from somewhere without disclosing it, but who very often did so in ways that meant they got it horribly wrong. E.g. another example was the guy who copied and pasted a forum post. Not only was the answer wrong, but it was followed on the forum by a large number of responses from other people explaining why it was wrong.