Sloth

[DBTrek]

Doesn’t matter if you have the knowledge of not, according to your definition of sloth. Pursuing that knowledge was simply self gratification without any “real” achievement. Ergo, it fits well within the parameters you’ve outlined for sloth.
Decades of rigorous sloth.
Where’s the achievement?
What have your degrees done for anyone but yourself?

[Martin Hash]

Dude, haven't your heard, I'm rich. (Maybe you were busy in 2nd Life during that time?)

[DBTrek]

I’ve heard but I see no evidence of it.
More than happy to open a shared account for you to deposit 1 million USD to have me verify.


Plus, wealth is neither production nor consumption so it’s irrelevant to whether one is a sloth, right?

[Martin Hash]

I’ve heard but I see no evidence of it.
More than happy to open a shared account for you to deposit 1 million USD to have me verify.


Plus, wealth is neither production nor consumption so it’s irrelevant to whether one is a sloth, right?

If someone GAVE a slothful person a winning lottery ticket then cashed that ticket for the slothful person then managed the money for the slothful person THEN a slothful person could be rich. But you in the basement with some barbells, that's sloth.

[DBTrek]

If someone GAVE a slothful person a winning lottery ticket then cashed that ticket for the slothful person then managed the money for the slothful person THEN a slothful person could be rich. But you in the basement with some barbells, that's sloth.

Contradictory.

You present a wealthy person managing their wealth as *not* slothful, but an average worker managing their body as a sloth.

Both are in the act of maintaining their personal assets.
Yet your definition applies to them differently.
Ergo your definition is flawed.

[K@th]

We have the word "lazy," we don't need a synonym, but if you have a word for busy people that don't produce, I'm open to it. I'd like to use it in further debate.

How about busy?

11 Differences Between Busy People And Productive People

[Martin Hash]

If someone GAVE a slothful person a winning lottery ticket then cashed that ticket for the slothful person then managed the money for the slothful person THEN a slothful person could be rich. But you in the basement with some barbells, that's sloth.

Contradictory.

You present a wealthy person managing their wealth as *not* slothful, but an average worker managing their body as a sloth.

Both are in the act of maintaining their personal assets.
Yet your definition applies to them differently.
Ergo your definition is flawed.

Word-smithing. Now that's ironic.

p.s. I think I won this "sloth" debate, and it was funny too.

[Martin Hash]

We have the word "lazy," we don't need a synonym, but if you have a word for busy people that don't produce, I'm open to it. I'd like to use it in further debate.

How about busy?

11 Differences Between Busy People And Productive People

That's word-smithing too, except with the word "busy" instead of "sloth." I appreciate the call-out though.

p.s. Plus, I use "busy" in my definition of sloth: busy consumption.

[DBTrek]

Word-smithing. Now that's ironic.

p.s. I think I won this "sloth" debate, and it was funny too.

I’m sure you think that.
I’m equally sure you reached that conclusion entirely by self consensus.


Really, how is managing one’s personal wealth “productive”, but managing one’s physical health not? Both are self interested pursuits that produce nothing for others.

[Martin Hash]

You're on a desert island.
The things you do that keep you alive: productive.
Masturbation & the like: consumptive. (sloth)