How does Ayn Rand's objectivism regard laziness?

Question:Is it part of the human nature? Is it a decision? Or what?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Is it part of the human nature? Is it a decision? Or what?

"Value" presupposes an answer to the question: of value to whom and for what? "

She would say he has that right to be lazy. If she conversed with him while he lounged around on the sofa, she would definitely find a way to determine if his mind was lazy. If her decision was that he was bright and not lazy of mind, she would try to convince him he was wasting his life.

"...ambition as such is a neutral concept: the evaluation of a given ambition as moral or immoral depends on the nature of the goal."

If the nature of one's goal is to have no goal, he has achieved it by being lazy.

It's a flaw that comes from the decision not to resist it. Good things belong to those who are NOT lazy and who create things without waiting for others to pick up the slack. Rand makes a virtue out of what others might term selfishness but is not clearly wrong.

Like everything else in her 'philosophy', her position on laziness amounts to a pornography of strength.

Hers is the commonest form of neo-conservative fantasy: winners win because they are winners.

That is to say, it is her contention that the disparity between the rich and the poor mirrors the disparity between those with 'talent' and 'drive', and those who are 'lazy' and 'idiotic'.

This leads inevitably to her notion that the poor must be forced into economically productive behaviour by their betters.

There is something both sado-masochistic and ludicrous in her idealization of the instinct to succeed, no matter what the cost, and her condemnation of the poor for being poor.

It is a purely fascist ideology, and I despise it and her -- and all of her pathetic followers -- with every bone in my body.

it is a choice for which you should cease to exist....life is too short to notice your existence
atlas shrugged

Basically, she believes it is the lazy person's problem. She doesn't support slavery, as far as I can tell. So she says let the lazy person be lazy and suffer the consequences of their own laziness.