Are people lazy, don’t know how to help or scared of liability.

[Comancheria]

I should have known better than to feed into others negativity on a forum where people would not act like they would to eachother in person.

 

[lilranch2001]

You are the tough guy!

 

[Hay Dude]

He can't do it because he is inherently incoherent.

I don’t get it, either. My wife is a teacher, is inherently generous and gives so much to our community.
There’s good & bad in every profession.

Politicians seem to have inherently disgraceful behavior. Thats about the only profession I know of that is full of selfish people.

 

[lilranch2001]

Just exactly where did ANYONE other than the troll say anything about the teaching profession being “full” of selfish people?

(Some of) You people really need to learn reading comprehension!

 

[two_bit_score]

Maybe he just left that part of the story out. Because he's a gentleman. Or maybe a wife or GF might read this....maybe both!

So he could be a gentleman and do it....as long as he left it out of the story?

Maybe that would be thought hypocritical behavior by some gentlemen.

 

[GeneV]

I'm definitely down to help my fellow man/woman when there's a need, primarily for selfish reasons coz it makes me feel good to do so.

 

[LD1]

Interesting read.

But the "no good deed goes unpunished" theme that seems to resonate through out this thread is IMO why alot of people not help out so much anymore.

And for me...that is a big reason.

I will bend over backwards to help friends and family. People that I know either personally or by association. But someone I dont know......20 years ago you bet I'd help in an instant. But anymore I find myself playing ignorant.

Now Im not talking life or death situations. But like someone who slid in the ditch in the snow. Sure....I have a truck and chains. But Im not a tow company. They have insurance that covers them if they damage something. I dont. And with modern vehicles.....good luck finding something to chain to. I will stop....make sure they are alight, and make sure they have a way to contact someone. Thats where it ends for me.

Similar scenerios could be applied to about any situation where 20-30 years ago....it would have been a no-brainer to help someone out. But TODAY......I tend to think more about what "can" happen if things go wrong. And its not worth the risk to me. If thats selfish, I guess I am a selfish person.

Other areas may be different, but alot of the change I have noticed around me is the city yuppies moving into the area. Living ~45min out of a major metropolitan area, 20-30 years ago we were still like 99% rural. Families that have been here for generations. But now.....its like every other house is someone who has moved here from the "city" so they can enjoy quite country life". But all they do is complain. Tractor noise, gunshots (recreation and hunting), slow moving equipment, poor road conditions, atv's/utvs on the roads, neighbors riding dirtbikes, manure smells, etc etc etc. Sorry....just dont have much desire to help those folks out.

 

[Locoweed]

Add on the ex-city people that don't want to mow their acreage, do any kind of maintenance on anything & expect people to be neighborly & do it for free.

 

[two_bit_score]

I have noticed around me is the city yuppies moving into the area.

Interesting article I read recently outlined the drop in adjusted gross incomes in some Texas Counties in 2020-2021 and increases in others, usually surrounding counties.

Moves out of Dallas County resulted in a 1% drop in adjusted gross income between 2020 and 2021, according to an analysis of tax data from the Economic Innovation Group (EIG), a nonpartisan think tank.

• But Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs and exurbs outside of the county had increases in adjusted gross income during the pandemic due to migration to those areas.

 

[Hay Dude]

Speaking of teachers….
Was talking to my wife the other night about her incoming class this year and behavior of kids in past years.

20 years ago when my wife started teaching, she would get a class of 20 kids and 1 or 2 would be misbehaved. She and her co-teachers now lament that a class of 20 kids today has 1 or 2 well behaved kids and 18 or 19 brats!
During conferences, she says she has noticed a lot of dysfunction in families in recent years. Kids forced to look at I-Pads with headphones from the age of 2, no socialization skills. Then the school gets that and they are a freakin mess. Parents “out to lunch” and more worried about the social media scores than raising good kids.