Really didn't get most of the article, apart from the bit at the end about collaboration, which I support wholeheartedly.
That being said, allow me to be a nitpicker for a moment, and correct the wrong assumptions about laziness. We didn't start using horses because we were to lazy to walk, it's because with horses we could get 10 times farther in half the time. We didn't start using animals in the fields because we were lazy, but because an animal could plow a field in a way that a human can't. The plow and the ox are responsible for several billions of people being alive currently. Same with agriculture, you can't sustain a population on that, not one that can develop, not one that can form a civilization. So it's not really a case of laziness, more of a case of progress. Same with machines, they can go above and beyond humans, replacing them entirely if needed in many fields. They can efficiently work faster and with even better skill than the most dedicated and hardworking humans. It's up to the people displaced by machines to not fall into laziness and just mope around the house watching TV all day. If they don't, well, that's laziness.

Back to the matter at hand, supporting each-other is a good way of making sure that we can all succeed on this platform. But I'm not in the "support anyone in the community because this is the community that we support" camp, because there's no barrier for entry in the community, so you get all sorts of people that I don't feel should be supported, people that willfully spread misinformation, discord and resort to bullying others, people that care absolutely nothing about the content, about the creation process, and are just in it to spam copy-pasted articles that they don't even read, and then expect votes and praise.

Discretion is advisable. Especially as the community grows and develops real power to enact change.