The Lazy Unemployed

I think we're putting paid to the myth that; if people are not working at a job they'll be lazy and do nothing all day.  If everyone else's FB feeds are like mine, people are filling their time with creativity, cooking, house projects, quality time with their kids, and discovering a community of peers across the country, heck; across the world!

Seems like every other post is someone's latest culinary masterpiece, or a creative exercise with the kids, or the remodel on the garage. I'm seeing more art, moer people performing, more people cooking, more people having fun with each other and the kids and the dogs and the cats than I have ever seen before, and sometimes from the last people of whom I would expect such a thing.

Seems to me there's been this myth perpetrated (I have my suspicions as to the origins) that people without a job would be at loose ends, adrift, lazy do-nothings who just sit around all day, or would turn to illegal and illicit doings.

But there have always been people like that, and the fact that most people were 'gainfully employed' did nothing to stop the small segment of society who are always either sloth or criminal.

What I'm seeing is people enjoying their lives. Remembering the joys of family, of home-making. Pulling out creative energies that have lain dormant for years. Volunteering in whatever limited way they can help from home. Doing. And finding plenty to do!

What I'm not seeing is lazyness. I'm not seeing any do-nothings.  Maybe that's just my feed, but I bet most people's feeds are seeing the same thing.  We are humans, we are not good at 'sit' and 'stay'. Especially not good at 'Do Nothing'.

But the myth persists, and it begs the question; Who started this myth?




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