The rituals of lawn care and snow removal, physically demonstrating commitment to the community, gradually being lost to efficiency.
@PorphyConob well in the old days you could always pay a neighborhood kid to do it, I gather - keeping the effort & the money within nbhd
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@PorphyConob now you just pay a monthly fee to the HOA or whatever and it just magically happens, people from far away nbhds do it
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@PorphyConob expectation is how we overcome laziness - both children and adults. no time for genetic change in "laziness" of course
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@sarahdoingthing ...kid do it at a lower cost than HOA charges. Lack of expectations in kids, &tc. -
@PorphyConob and having that ready supply of immigrant labor crowds out kids - easy to blame kids' poor motivation for society's failings
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@sarahdoingthing it's not a genetic change but neither is it a change in "we want efficiency" - efficiency would be having neighborhood...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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