Laziness has and continues to impact society in a variety of ways. Some use
laziness to their disadvantage to sit on the couch and order services like DoorDash,
while another person’s laziness sparked them to create DoorDash. As the creator of
LazyBlog put it, “…the first guy to put a sail on a boat was looking for a way to
avoid rowing. The guy who first hitched a plow to an ox was looking for a way to
escape digging. And whoever harnessed a waterfall to grind grain was too lazy to
pound it with rocks.” (Weeks 2011). Society should be grateful for lazy people
because without them we wouldn’t have a lot of the useful things we utilize today.
Laziness will have the most impact on the future because it will lead to convenient
inventions at a high price and in turn, create more lazy individuals who are willing
to pay the price.
With technology advancing as quickly as it is, this trend will continue and
our future will be transformed for our convenience. Our lives have drastically changed
within the last few decades without even realizing it because of laziness. In 2007,
Netflix started offering subscribers the option to stream movies at home by using
the internet (Hosch 2022). This was a convenient invention because people no
longer had to drive to the theater, all they had to do was walk to their couch.
However, these people had to pay a price for this service. Today, a premium Netflix
subscription costs twenty dollars a month (Murphy 2022). Netflix has about 222
million subscribers, as of January 2022. With this amount of subscribers, Netflix
continues raising prices as they know how strongly these lazy people want to
continue watching movies from the comfort of their home. With a convenient
invention like this and how it has evolved over the years, one can only imagine
what the future holds for society. Someone who didn’t want to take the time to peel
potatoes with a basic potato peeler, created the Starfrit Rotato Express Electric
Peeler for twenty dollars on Amazon. If you’re wondering how many people would
buy such a device to just peel potatoes and pay for shipping in addition, the product
has 13,126 reviews. The fact that people are willing to pay over twenty dollars to
just peel potatoes, should show how lazy society really is. Although, it is quite
convenient since it saves a lot of time.
Laziness will drastically change the future because one day, we will no longer
have to cook for ourselves. There will be innovative, expensive robots that cook our
desired meals within minutes, with groceries delivered via InstaCart. We will no
longer have to clean our houses because there will be bleach spraying sensors
created to clean up every mess detected. A bed with an electric mode will be
invented to make itself every morning. We will no longer have to decide what to
wear because apps on the Apple Store will choose for us with a simple picture of
our closet and inputting the occasion. All these new inventions will be thought of by
a “lazy” individual who will use this attribute to become proactive and make the
product they wish they could have had earlier. The product will then be available to
society for a convenience they find worthwhile, but at a price. Society has the
choice to buy the convenient product and be “lazy”, or to save their money and be
active in doing basic, daily activities. From looking at how Netflix has evolved to
electric potato peelers, there is no doubt the future is going to be transformed into
a world of convenience for lazy people.
