I understand that there is indeed a sense of entitlement among many boomers. We grew up during a time of plenty. Most of us have never really been desperately poor in comparison to real 3rd world poverty. Yeah, poor maybe by current standards of western civilization.. but from a global perspective our sense of entitlement does not resonate with the expectations of the world community.

One reason why immigrants come to the west and become rich in one generation is that they are not bound by the noose of entitlement. They understand exactly what they see in nature... that whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. And what we sow by the handful, we reap by the bushel. Diligence leads to plenty, not as a guarantee, but on the average, it provides a better outcome than the expectation that it is somebody else's responsibility to enrich your life.

And that is what entitlement is in a nutshell: the expectation that somebody else has more responsibility to fix your life than you do.



Look at nature for a dose of reality. Animals do not find their food conveniently at the same location every day. Some days they don't find food at all. They are not entitled to find food. Oftentimes they are not even entitled to keep the food they find because a bigger animal comes and takes it.

But we are able to reason in ways that animals cannot. We can take the same unstructured and unregulated chaos that affects us all and cooperate to everyone's mutual benefit. No law can mandate this. It always boils down to personal choice. And to the extent that individuals make such choices, Manning's cockney world can continue to exist... wherever people make such choices.

Organizations will always seek to maximize profits by screwing the people, which is exactly why the answer is never to give the government MORE power. Cooperation is a person-to-person phenomenon. We all need to reinforce that in each other. When you see somebody help his neighbor, praise him for it. Behavior that is rewarded gets repeated. Individuals always see a need and respond to it better than the government. That may be why the guys in manning's story who sold hot watches also helped the poor... because they are individuals first.

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