Citizens often say that man is evil and lazy. I think they imply a causal relationship between evil and lazy, ie that a lazy person would be evil. This idea goes back to Protestantism's kinship between its ethics and capitalism as described by the sociologist Max Weber. Before industrialism in the 1800th century, the rich were often robber barons and the poor their exploited subjects. Then it was easier to see that poverty could strike someone for no reason. But as industrialism developed, people could make a career and some strong ones could work themselves rich. Back then, it was easier to blame poverty on unwillingness to work. At the same time, i.a. learned Calvinism that one was predestined as good or evil. And industriousness was good. If you worked hard, you could show that you were predestined for the kingdom of heaven hereafter. Thus arose this bourgeois idea of a causal connection between laziness and evil. But it's easy to prove how wrong this is, because surely you can imagine a lazy and righteous person and a hard-working but mean person? I do not believe that man is either purely good or evil, but in any case you cannot say that hard work is the most or only characteristic of a good person or vice versa. Why would it be so good to be extra good at contributing to the already senseless opulence of a select few millionaires?