Laziness Does Not Exist

100% agree.

I would also add our Individualistic and Puritanical culture to the mix of causes. We're told all of your problems are 100% in your control, and that if you're not working 100% of the time that you're a worthless piece of shit that doesn't deserve to live, that no structural issues exist, that there's nothing you can't 100% overcome with enough individual determination. It's so unbelievably toxic and unhealthy, and causes people to not only not have sympathy or empathy for others, but to see empathy as a negative trait, as a weakness.

Your perspective on your problems is 100% yours, not it itself.
- That's such a meaningless sentiment. Sure, I can try to "feel positive" about my ability to navigate or overcome systemic issues, but that doesn't make it so that I actually can. This is just "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" thinking with a toxic positivity veneer.

This is pretty interesting. Reminds me of the ADHD posts on here where people get their meds right and are like "I have superpowers now. I just think about doing something and I do it."

I would like to add something else: laziness and relaxation are totally fine as a part of your life. Athletes know that how you recover from training is as important as the training you do. They literally schedule rest days, and rest periods in each day. If you want to do anything well, you have to have time away from it to recover.

Another succinct quote: “The brain learns during the breaks.” Repeating the same thing uninterrupted in order to learn it won’t help.

If you’re laying out in the freezing cold, drinking some alcohol may be the only way to warm up and get to sleep

That is a popular myth. The truth is the opposite.

The feeling of warmth is the heat leaving your body and the receptors on your skin are detecting it. Meanwhile your core temperature is going down.

Then perhaps a better phrasing is "may be the only way to feel warm and get to sleep", even if it doesn't actually warm you.
- Regardless, it is a bad decision by the homeless person and an example which a better informed author would have left out. Insomnia is less harmful than hypothermia.
  It isn't that alcohol doesn't really warm you, it is worse than that. It actually makes your body core colder while giving the illusion of the opposite.

I just need time to go 10% as fast as it's going now...

A lot of really good points on this, and I mostly agree. But I do go to university with a guy who is actively lazy: if there's a choice of spending 10 minutes on a task to do it properly or 30 seconds on it to do it shittily, he'll do the 30 second version every damned time because it's "less effort". He's a nightmare on group projects. We don't give him any tasks where it matters if the result is good anymore.

That sounds like a rough person to have to work with, but I think that's more accurately described as a mismatch between values and priorities. He probably feels his time is more valuable than receiving a good grade. Well, either that or the idea of taking longer to create better quality is just undesirable to him for some reason.
- I dunno. It's weird. The guy's absolutely convinced he's going to walk into a job after graduation because he "looks the part", like employers are just going to look at his hipster style and not care that his portfolio is a dumpster fire. He's got the laziness of someone who was smart enough to coast through school without putting in any effort, and hasn't woken up to the fact that a degree takes more than that.

I'm lazy as fuck.

What this comes down to and what is ultimately the better question, why are so many people unable to sympathizes with others?

Either they think they’re better than everyone else, or they hate themselves and project ?