Are Americans too lazy?

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I heard they are very lazy

ManOnFire · Accepted Answer

Possibly, but I think America's biggest issue is that so many Americans complain and take life for granted, and feel like putting up a fight with managers - and I don't love managers or retail, don't get me wrong - even about the simplest part-time jobs, when we don't have it nearly as bad as some other countries.

You got people in India and Nepal making a couple cents a day or even a week to try to live on. Africans within their own countries who have to travel from villages to the city just to make money, and send most of it home. Asians slaving away in sweat shops to make our shit. And the list goes on.

I suppose I wish Americans would man up a little more and stop acting like their lives are the end of the world.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

If you take a great range of the American population you'll certainly find very lazy, specially young, people. However, if you take their history into account, you'll see that they have created many things that lazy people are not capable of.
Using my country as a comparison, an American have six times more productivity than a Brazilian and this is due their technological progress plus creative freedom. If you ask me what I think of Americans, lazy is not in my list, but a lot of them are self-centred as romans once were before the barbarian invasion.

sage2021 · Accepted Answer

Let's not forget that not all people in America 🇺🇸 are legal Americans; and there are millions of them here that are here in America that aren't Americans. Include them when you judge that "Americans are too lazy!"
You can't believe everything you hear about a country 🇺🇸 as over populated as America. ☮️

AGirl_x · Accepted Answer

Not all over the place but I just know southern california and particularly Los Angeles... a fucked up place to grow up especially, and people are either workaholics or parasites... Parasites always complain as well...

OlderAndWiser · Answer

And you think that all Americans are alike? Do you think that all Albanians are alike? All Venezuelans are alike? All Sudanese are alike?

RolandCuthbert · Answer

It is so weird. I went to Paris on an extended project. Me and my American counterparts were getting to the site everyday before 9am and working until 9pm.

Our French counterparts were getting in around 9:30, taking a two hour lunch, and leaving at 4:15.

Europeans get a minimum of four weeks of vacation. They get paid family leave for a birth of a child. There are ordinances that say every desk for an employee must have access to sunlight.

But Americans have been totally tricked into thinking we are the lazy ones.
Go figure.

s10sleeper · Answer

Not necessarily, there are some that are workaholics. One thing to consider is the generation. Boomers and Gen X were raised to work hard to get what they are after. Millennials tend to feel entitled, they typically won’t stay with a job if they don’t get what they want, and so many live with their parents that they don’t have the repercussions of not having a job

hahahmm · Answer

In general, yes. NOT based on the number of hours worker but based on whether or not people put in the effort to raise their kids properly, and to maintain an orderly society. Too many people got lazy and now the country is falling apart at an accelerated rate.

Dragonpurple · Answer

Some are, some are not, just like everywhere else. I know very hard workers who put in a lot of hours at work and are highly productive. I also know many entitled welfare lazy butts, who the only work they put in, is whatever government requirement they have to do to continue being free loaders.

mobiusforniner · Answer

Yes. Many people want to become bosses and supervisors so they can make more money without investing the effort to get there. And when they get to that point they are ill prepared, trying to delegate tasks based solely on their title and with no sense of leadership. This creates an inflated management system with no inherent work ethic. I think the true American motto is, getting the most amount of benefit for the least amount of effort.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes many are very very lazy they just want the government to take care of them they're basically twelve-year-old who never grow up and the government is their new mommy and daddy now that their real mom and dad are saying you need to get a job. So they get very angry and become very violent socialists

Anonymous · Answer

Over-all they are hard working people. You do hear of the lazy ones, but you can't judge a nation off of a minority of the population. And currently you do hear of people not taking jobs that are available. It doesn't mean that the majority of the nation is made up of this.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Americans could be called a lot of things, but lazy certainly not. Given their interpretation of capitalism, 90% of them are proverbial slaves for their corporate overlords...

DanielBlack1904120 · Answer

were one some of the hardest working people because we have to be in a place where there is always someone better who wants your job or some that are willing to do it for less than you... when companies here start to lose profits people with seniority are the first to go

Adam1978 · Answer

Nature encourages lazy, humans are no exception. Why spend more energy on anything than you need unless it pays of in the long run. So people who isn't lazy is the exception not the rule.

humpbackjack · Answer

A lot of the younger generations are but I wouldn’t say the majority are and I believe a lot of it is due to the new laws making weed legal so give them a little time and they’ll plane back out and will learn to be able to smoke and not need a nap

MoJoYoYo · Answer

Yes, lots of younger generation Americans are lazy. However, most of the conservative people you meet will not be lazy people. Some people who are more liberal are hard working, but most of them what to feed of the government and have socialism.

BeMuse · Answer

Yeah that must be it... Laziness always leads to the largest economy in the world... All that lack of work just produces so much stuff somehow... Your friends are retarded.

AviatorTom · Answer

Noting wrong with being lazy. The old saying is true... "If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person, they'll find a better way to do it."

Levin · Answer

Don't Americans work like 60 hours a week and have like 4 days annual leave a year?

virtue2332 · Answer

OBVIOSLY NOT A ONE LABEL FITS ALL DEAL. It would be similar to saying why do all non Americans wish they were Americans.

doopayo · Answer

Americans are some of the most overworked so no, I wouldn’t say the average American is lazy despite the stereotypes

WindAtMyBack · Answer

They have by far the biggest economy in the world because they are lazy. That's how you make a big economy, by being lazy and not doing anything.

Outofthegrey · Answer

Why are countries with shorter work weeks and middle of the day naps calling me lazy?

exitseven · Answer

Americans have the least amount of vacation time of any developed country.

IAMNathanael · Answer

Maybe lazy... but not too lazy. The other stereotype is that we're workaholics.

hi_it_is_me123 · Answer

I dont think so. In Europe we have so many holidays and social benefits like paternity leave for 3 years etc

call_me_scar · Answer

We are not lazy we are simply tired as we have to work more and harder to get by so we're basically the opposite of lazy

bean2k21 · Answer

Most Americans I know Work way too hard And you have to practically force A vacation on them

Ratpack60 · Answer

All countries have lazy people. The problem with our world is people of all countries get stereotyped. Let’s get to know people and not go by what we “hear”.

slatyb · Answer

Like people everywhere, some are lazy, some work hard for what they want.

jshm2 · Answer

No. Muricans are lazy, Americans just get by on minimum wage.

Seangreen · Answer

I am definitely lazy but I don't think it's cuz I'm an American I think it's cuz I have to go to work everyday

KostasKouvalis · Answer

They're just smart. They figured out that there's a way to survive without having to work yourself to death

MJtheCoach · Answer

Try to travel you haven’t seen lazy! Go to South Asia and Middle East. You’ll see lazy! How is U. S is lazy? They make all the popular things in the world.

dreamstar72 · Answer

Lazy as in how? If we define technology as a part in laziness then the whole world is somewhat lazy.

SiberFox · Answer

I disagree, Americans are a hard-working bunch. But like everywhere a lot of them can be lazy also.

Breonna_2003 · Answer

I know i am i would rather freeze then put my coat on.

adidas0169 · Answer

Of this generation oh god yes americans are LAZY as hell. most of this generation want everything handed to them and have no sense of work ethics.

Jackpot7s · Answer

I like to keep busy at times but I am pretty lazy as well too sometimes.

TexasRed95 · Answer

Just like with everything else it depends on the individual.

Raidernation01 · Answer

There are lots of lazy ones but there's plenty of hard workers to offset the lazy people.

captain_voidwalker · Answer

Americans work more hours per week on average than any European nation. But if your comparing us to Asian nations then ya we lazy as fuck.

EnglishEuropean · Answer

Who told you that? I'm not American but I never heard that. I heard the British are lazy but that's not true either.

noohair · Answer

Americans have less vacation time and more productivity that any country in Europe.  So where do you call home?

Anonymous · Answer

Yes but every nation is too lazy. It's called being average.

Jackblue · Answer

What country are you comparing us too. We work longer hours than many others.

Zodiac10 · Answer

As someone who is from the United States I can confirm everyone here is not lazy thank you.

Anonymous · Answer

they are busy hooking up and prostituting and selling drugs and killing Africans for natural resources and conspiring those who object illuminati and making money by selling dangerous drugs, making weapons and selling it. They are busy

Anonymous · Answer

Why not After? After a lifetime of hardworking I've learned being lazy pays about the same as working hard.

OddBeMe · Answer

(Puffs joint…) Well… (Bigger puff) Ehh…maybe

Paul09 · Answer

Well they do fast fast food restaurants at every corner lol.

WhiteBoyChill · Answer

If you’re talking about the younger generation than absolutely

NorthboundSouth · Answer

from what i have seen the newer generations are very hard working

kyleelyn199723 · Answer

Some are, others aren’t. All depends.

ohshee · Answer

I would say 65 or 70 out of 100 are probably lazy

snowboarder720 · Answer

Well… they normally do well in the Olympics.

FictionalCharacter · Answer

What’s wrong with laziness?

sensible27 · Answer

If some are it's because they can be.. maybe

FunkyMonkee · Answer

I'll let ya know after I have another nap.

joeldalton · Answer

You're American, what do you think?

Kyle-Jackson78 · Answer

no some are some are not

SunnyCaliGirl · Answer

Varies from person to person.

SAMI_DABBAB · Answer

I entered to post "What the hell?"

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