Teaching people to be compassionate out of a promise of reward was always a terrible idea. No society has ever really rewarded kindness.
We should be teaching young people that compassion is an act of rebellion against uncaring systems and always has been.
Well put! Killing 'em with kindness is the best
Nearly every? Maybe 80-90%?
Somebody can math this better than me
Being kind is its own reward. Life is generally better if you try to make life better for others. Not like life will be perfect, but better than it would be otherwise.
Like, when I used to work shitty part-time jobs, if I went in with a good attitude and was as kind to those around me as I could be, I had a better day than if I was grumpy and did the bare minimum. Got paid the same shitty wage either way, but my life was better when I was kinder. Sure some people take advantage of that kindness, but most will reflect it back to you.
There can be ways that hard work and kindness lead to material rewards. But in general it is worth being kind simply because you’ll enjoy life more.
(Also, I wouldn’t have married my wife if I hadn’t been kind and befriended someone a lot of other people thought was frustrating or annoying. I had met my wife previously, but only knew her in passing. Years later, we re-met at that friend’s birthday party. Started dating a few months later, and now we’re married! That mutual friend can still sometimes be frustrating or annoying, but we always try to be kind to her because that’s what brought us together.)
Interesting thing I read, the previous generation teaches us how to live based on what they went through, not what the future would bring.
Which is largely why in that time they could go far with purely hardwork and sometimes further with an education.
That however is no longer the case anymore, partially because of the same generation that sold you on the lie.
It also tells us why the previous generation doesnt understand when you tell them no you can’t just walk into a store and just ask for a job and you get enough to feed your whole family.
The worse thing? Those same people selling you the lie are now politicans or policy makers or those in ceo positions.
Depends on what you consider a reward. Being compassionate and working to build a better world is extremely rewarding, but I’m not going to live in luxury. The rewards from compassion are worth far more
There was a point in time a man could support a family working as a cashier at a grocery store.
Yes, I’m aware. My fight is union organizing.
Then you’ll find me in your corner.
I don’t even care if I’m not rewarded. I just don’t want to be punished. They have made it impossible to have a simple life.
I recommend Revolutionary Suicide.
I disagree because it only helps when you’re just having bad luck. But in this case, people are just actively being screwed over by greedy companies (, and that’s not a matter of good or bad luck); so to fight back would be the right thing to do.
Huey P. Newton’s book Revolutionary Suicide.
Sure as shit sounds like you agree with him. Read the book.
no tf i’m not gonna spend minutes of my life reading a book with that title; just give me a summary.
why should I spend MY precious time? Waste your time instead!
You are replying to a person not your ai chat slave. Summary: Rude.
yeah you’re right i’m sorry i just got a bit too much emotionally triggered by the word “suicide”
I’m not going to waste minutes of my life to write that which you could look up in seconds.
Good luck. Sounds like you’ll need it.
a simple life.
Not much profit in that…
I was nice for 20 years. Started trying when I was 10. I’m giving up now. Now I’m ready to be selfish.
Posts like this are so weird to me. Clearly this is a common thing that a lot of people are going through, but in real life most people I know have succeeded through integrity (similar to kindness) and hard work. Not just kids from middle-class families, but immigrants, first-generation college students, etc. There must be some sort of filter creating a social bubble around me, like how I have met very few Trump voters (and don’t know any of them well) despite the fact that there are actually quite many of them.
local bubbles are a thing. just because things are that way for you, doesn’t mean that they are that way for everybody. i’ve met a few unfortunate people in my life, who were just screwed over by the world around them.
I didn’t mean to imply anything to the contrary of what you’re saying. I’m just reminded of the Simpsons episode where Smithers says
If Mr. Burns ever wants to see a stranger, he will observe him through a powerful telescope.
People are hidden from each other in plain sight.
Yeah, good point. I’m often surprised how different the life circumstances and personal views and opinions of two people can be, who sit very close to one another on a bus or public transport. It’s often incredible how much cultural diversity and diversity in life experiences there exists in a society.
“Have to”?
Leaving the “fuck” in clear so no other social media can just copy paste the meme.
Make them work for it if they are too cowardly to link to Lemmy.
Why do you have to do that?
I guess telling kids, ain’t you shit bc it parents poor suckers being exploited by owners is a bit not PC?
Hmm I wonder why that would be a thing.
