Originally Posted by AGGRO
I work with a guy from Africa here with a green card. We are both Software Engineers. Anyway, he's lived all over Europe and the US and he constantly re-iterates how lazy people are here and is amazed at the levels of poverty people will deal with without moving on to find better living conditions. He said he sees it back in Africa too but not as bad as what he has seen here.
He guessed that it was the fear of the unknown that keeps people from moving on. The rational that it could always be worse.
I work for a very global company: 3.4 percent of workforce is in US. Many of my office coworkers are from other countries. As a mid-level manager for the company, almost all of my "extended coworkers" (i.e. people in similar postions around the world) are non-US.
Their comments re-enforce your point; many, many people here are LAZY!
We are fortunate in that we are a rich enough society that you can get away with being VERY lazy and still not go hungry, not freeze...