Laziness: brought to you by "the progress".

As a result of different events that took place during the Middle Age, we find ourselves immersed into a concept known as progress, which can be defined as an improvement of the quality of life for human beings thanks to the invention of equipment dedicated to help us and the patenting of creativity. This specific concept can be seen as a controversial one, due to the fact that for some people, progress has been the reason why life conditions are better nowadays than how they were in previous years; and for others, progress can be seen as something that has made us lazy. Progress is the responsible of laziness in our current world due to different factors.

Thanks to the poor education system that certain countries have, the incentive of creativity, which is an important fact for people to not become lazy and for a country to progress, has been put aside. Third world countries usually want to achieve academic standards featured in first world countries, focusing only in the academic performance of the students. As a result, the lack of creativity allows the inhabitants from those countries to be satisfied with things that they already have.

Since we believe that everything has already been made, we remain desiring existing things instead of inventing something new. The inventors from all the equipment we use in our daily life have stolen the possibility of being creative to people who live in countries that are not as globalized as others.

Machines that are built to save our time when doing certain activities keep replacing us, without us even noticing. Advertising campaigns play an important role in this situation, because their objective is to convince more viewers to purchase what they’re offering, telling them that they will fulfill all the expectations they have from the product. After buying it and using it, you start to feel better because of the little effort you make in order to get the activity done: as the machine starts to replace us, we decide to not stop this because of the pleasure we feel when we do nothing.

In conclusion, laziness and progress walk hand in hand in today’s world. Consequently, it is of utmost importance to have in mind that the approach taken by the education system from a country will determine its future, which includes how the relationship between humans and machines will develop.