Pondering Wages Of Virtue

A group of articles I've read in the past few days has coalesced into a notion that links together some things normally discussed separately.

1. Sloth is mostly comprised of short-sightedness. How so? It tends to cause more work later on, whether from things getting atrophied/stuck/damaged or, if the slothful tendencies are ingrained enough to become self-righteous, in complaining that others have too-high standards, or any standards at all. The path that truly involves less work has more to begin with. Short-sightedness therefore leads to both the vice and the thing it attempted to avoid.
2. As a corollary to #1, overcoming the vice early on yields both less work and a better outcome.
3. Most or all vices follow this pattern.
4. Epicurus not only covered this, but objective analysis of the phenomenon is the root of his philosophy.
5. Insisting that others should have no standards at all is not only dumb, self-defeating, selfish, and illogical, it is very, very popular.
6. Approaching virtue as something with rewards aside from itself, which it almost always has, is a very useful way to promote it as a habit or set of habits.

It probably looks like I've been mostly posting up ideas of articles instead of items fully realized. That's because I am. Sort of storing them here for possible later development.