Laziness is often perceived as a personality flaw, a thing that you need to resist and push yourself away from it to avoid the negative consequences.
A lot of human emotions that are negative are being vilified and made to be a taboo or just a personal flaw by society, rather than an intelligent response from your body for which there is a cause and an effect.
Lazy is not a very precise word to describe what is happening, I prefer the synonymous apathy which comes from: the early 17th century: from French apathie, via Latin from Greek apatheia, from apathēs ‘without feeling’, from a- ‘without’ + pathos ‘suffering’.
Laziness is a way to reduce what you are felling at the moment because it is particularly unpleasant. Whenever you realize that most of your actions lead to sufferance the way to avoid that sufferance at least temporarily is to stop taking any action.
There is not only a personal responsibility one individual can take in order to reduce the amount of apathy he would experience in his life, but there is also a collective global responsibility that increases or decreases the amount of sufferance and apathy in the world.
For example non-productivity is very common in certain governance programs like communism and socialism or the modern re-branded version of it globalism, where there is a lot of coercion from the state and centralized power people tend to give up and stop working hard because the more money they make the more it is going to be taken away from them, the more they contribute to they're community the more attempts there will be to suppress them.
So then the way to minimize the amount of damage they experience is to stop being so productive, laziness is like hibernation you stop being active and limit yourself to doing only what is necessary to survive until the big threat that you cant face and overcome by yourself goes away or you find a way to fight back. The same a bear does in the winter, because there is not enough food in the winter there is no point in staying awake and wasting more energy to procure food, so a better strategy is to just sleep it off.
There are two very common patterns as far as I am aware of, some people when they are coerce they realize that you can't stand up to your abusers so they become abusive themselves towards other people that are weaker then they are, this is how they minimize their loss at the expense of someone else. You either get eaten or eat someone, is their general philosophy.
And than there are some people that when they are coerce they just go in to hibernation they won't reach their full potential because they wan't to minimize the amount of predation they are going to suffer, but they will also won't become abusive towards others because they have empathy and they understand the destruction that is going to cause to them and other people.
This unfortunately means that they are trapped in their apathy, until the abuse and their chronic pain caused by the abuse will stop.
