This author is a nonsense person.<p>Laziness exists. . It's nice to think of humans as noble and well intentioned despite some externalities, but some people are consciously, deliberately, knowingly manipulative and deceitful and lazy.<p>Not everyone is good. Most people aren't. We're vicious, tribal, vengeful, resentful, always looking out for whatever the biggest circle is we feel responsible for, whether it's a country, a company, a team, family, friends, or just ourselves.<p>The reasons might make sense to the person doing the rationalizing, but that doesn't negate the fact that bad traits exist. You can't rationalize away the consequences of choice in individual life circumstances.<p>This person is why I have very little respect for academia. If they're a "PhD," then the term means nothing.