It's time for Americans to un-weaponize 'laziness,' writes Sara Stewart for CNNOpinion
Sara Stewart is a film and culture writer who lives in western Pennsylvania. The views expressed here are solely the author's own. View more opinion articles on CNN.Sara Stewart For me, the occasion was cancer, diagnosed in 2018. One of the most ludicrous things I heard while sick was:"Cancer is a gift." As if being at death's door, or somewhere in that neighborhood, bestows wisdom that can't be gotten any other way.
The psychology behind millennials' and Gen Z's return-to-work preferences 04:48In 2005, a French author named Corinne Maier wrote a tongue-in-cheek manifesto, Bonjour Laziness, in which she suggested people should work as little as possible at their jobs -- and this was in a country with a mandated 35-hour workweek. Even though she got reprimanded by her day job for writing the book, I believe Maier was ahead of her time.
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