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This! I've been saying this for years now. "The village" that it takes to get through life in a healthy way has been completely dismantled and commodified.
You hear people who don't know their neighbors names, or just call the cops on kids in their neighborhood cause the parents aren't around instead of just watching out for them, or people saying they wouldn't take their friends to the airport cause "there's nothing in it for them", and a million other little things.
We are social creatures, we need other people to help us out. But people seem to be uninterested in anything further than their own nose.
Why bother when I have to move every year because my rent goes up every year. How considerate of these neighbors to ensure no low income housing exists around them. Perhaps they aren't worth knowing after all...
Its a pretty big assumption that I am not also in that position.
And not that it matters, but I've moved almost every year since I was about 10 years old. Sometimes multiple times a year. And I'm not going to pretend I'm besties with every single person I've ever lived next to but it was also beneficial to be a friendly neighbor.
People are mostly willing to help their friends.