WTF are Traditional Values?

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HappySqurriel said:

SciFiBoy said:

HappySqurriel said:

It usually depends on the context it is being used in ...

In some cases people are refering to how people no longer value hard-work, and everyone seems to have an entitlement complex.

 

oh good, a  sweeping generalisation, i have met only a couple of people in my life to whom either of your statements could apply, most people i know do value hard work and i can only think of 1 person i know who has anything approaching an "entitlement complex"

 

First off, you're pretty dense if you don't understand what an example is ...

Now, I have no evidence to support that people have a greater entitlement complex today then they ever have but I have seen more people who I would say have entitlement issues than those that don't; when you have an economy that is built on people living above their means you'd have difficulty demonstrating that people do not have entitlement issues.

How did entitlement come into the argument? Besides, I'm pretty sure entitlement (in one form or another -particularly family entitlement) is at least a three hundred year old tradition. Reduced family size by way of technological innovation like the plow made way for capital accumulation and entitlements to the next generation within a family.

If you are speaking about the government, I imagine it is a shift based on the society. It's seems most 'values' shift depending on what is required in society- like family size (not too many people making kids straight on til menopause any more right?). People figure out how they can get by in the easiest manner. It doesn't seem like it would be a suprise. In fact it seems like perfect human innovation.

Take a bloated government from a rich nation and get money without putting anything in. It's fucking genius.