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RE: Comfort forgone: Sharing suffering in a gift economy
Sharing suffering in a gift economy: if you're feeling bad, slap the guy sitting next to you and when they are reeling from the shock tell them that you gave them the gift of suffering - in a sharing economy. :D
It is a parents job to slap their kids with disappointment. Perhaps people didn't have parents who cared enough about them to teach them life's important lessons hence, all of the entitlement.
That's a good point. But is it so that when a society becomes wealthier and life becomes easier there will be fewer disappointments and a general sense of entitlement will follow?
Yeah, I think so. I think Finland is a pretty good example of this considering the hardships faced a couple generations ago were pretty much gone by the 90s. Even in the last 15 years I have noticed a massive shift from a savings culture to one of instant gratification and debt building. People feel they are entitled to all of the good things in life, even if they must be bought before being earned.