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If you've ever been to an Amway meeting, then you've seen the marketing of "slackerhood" raised to the genius level. The subtext of all multi-level marketing schemes is that sitting in a cubicle all day, working hard for somebody else, is for schmucks.
The really smart people are the ones who kick back and let the people below them on the pyramid, their "downline," make them rich.
It's the old "There's no such thing as a free lunch" maxim turned on its head. In the MLM world, anybody who earns their daily bread by the sweat of their brow is an idiot.
In the real world, it's not shameful to be unemployed, or to be, for example, a starving artist. However, it is shameful to act like the world owes you a living.
It's shameful, and a sin, to exploit other people.
Finally, it's a shame, and a sin, to waste ones talent.
reading the review of tom lutz' novel, "great couch potatoes of history," i was reminded, more than once, of the spanish proverb (to which i often subscribe): How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
