From https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/476txv/is_there_a_term_for_this_upcoming_world/

Post by guspasho:

This isn't really a discussion for this group, but your definition and your idealization of capitalism is mistaken in several ways.

1) Capitalism is not designed to force out laziness in humanity. It is designed to extract wealth from labor and return it to the capitalist, called maximizing the return on capital. The successful capitalist does not labor but literally gets to skim off the labor of others, making laziness a luxury of the rich, while denying it to the rest of us.
2) Forcing out laziness in humanity is code for exploitation and enslavement. I demand the right to be lazy. The right to be lazy is the right from which I can freely choose to participate in the labor market and choose my productivity and creativity of my own free will. I personally - and you will find many in this subreddit who agree with me - resent the notion that I must always work harder than I am. It is antithetical to liberty and antithetical to the idea of free markets that capitalists so claim to love.
Capitalism - specifically "forcing out laziness" - takes that liberty away from people. It forces people to participate in the labor market against their own free will, enslaving them to it and exploiting them, pitting them against each other in a race to the bottom where they are forced to work harder and harder for less and less, making them miserable and overworked, until the system collapses - all the while the rich get richer off their labor.
"Forcing out laziness" has been a primary justification for the literal enslavement of human beings, and should always be viewed with hostility.
3) Capitalism does not encourage growth, but rather extracts more and more wealth from the commons, which it can quantify and then and call "growth". But this wealth was always there in the commons, it has just been confiscated by the capitalist.
4) Encouraging growth is not a good thing anyway, because this rapacious demand for extracting wealth from the commons destroys the commons, our communal wealth. It is in the process of quite literally destroying our planet, and is plainly unsustainable.
5) Capitalism does not necessarily reward innovation. It only rewards innovations that enhances the return on capital. Innovations that do not serve this goal are discouraged and repressed. A great example of this that comes to mind is then the CEO of Keurig announced it was not going to oppose people using their own Kcup inserts any longer. Keurig's stock subsequently dropped by several percent. Capitalism encourages innovations that are socially useless and environmentally destructive but represses and discourages innovations that are consumer-friendly and environmentally-responsible.
Capitalism is a rapacious and destructive system. It may be good for the capitalist, but it is not good for the rest of us.