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Erm, I am afraid I don't really understand the question nor do I know its proper context, since I live in a country where most of these reasons seem to be irrelevant.
For eg: We are all too technology-oriented and start forgetting our own ethics. Like someone pointed out, "Why do it when the appliances can do it for me?"
Our family is pretty well-off, and yet any appliances for housework beyond a washing machine is looked upon as an excess. Even that is only used for big or particularly dirty pieces, like bed sheets and all. We do our own dishes, clean our own rooms, wash our own everyday clothes, even if we don't actually need to do it ourselves, because excess is to be avoided at all costs.
But from the other replies, I think I have gleaned some things that do apply to our own country as well.
Any kind of ethics, is so hard to find nowadays.
People are too busy chasing after things to take joy in their jobs or studies. They are too wrapped up in the life they want to pay any attention to the life they have.
Why give something your hundred percent when it doesn't give you an adequate amount of satisfaction back, right?
Work is work, study is study.
Work isn't getting a job done well, studying isn't learning.
Its just business. You work because of a salary. You study and get marks because you need a job and the salary to live.
Just as an example: A good college admission requires at least 80% marks here, and the seats are usually filled within 90-95%. Brilliance is becoming too commonplace. And yet, most of these 'toppers' can't answer some easy questions when they are presented from a practical point of view, which they should have been able to do since they went through all those lessons, if they had actually tried to understand and not just mug up.
We are brought up nowadays with a whole set of different rules. Asking questions is not good, just follow what the others do and take the path of least resistance. Don't try to stand out when it doesn't reap you any benefit. Kill your creativity and any idea of doing something differently. Just get through life so you can afford that house, that car, that this and a thousand other things you don't really want, but have to get to keep up with the world.
And along this rat race, all your own work ethics are forgotten.
"I should clean this up" becomes "Let someone else clean the mess up. Why should I? I have better things to do." Peple atre too concentrated on the 'I' and 'Me's to look beyond their own self.
For eg: We are all too technology-oriented and start forgetting our own ethics. Like someone pointed out, "Why do it when the appliances can do it for me?"
Our family is pretty well-off, and yet any appliances for housework beyond a washing machine is looked upon as an excess. Even that is only used for big or particularly dirty pieces, like bed sheets and all. We do our own dishes, clean our own rooms, wash our own everyday clothes, even if we don't actually need to do it ourselves, because excess is to be avoided at all costs.
But from the other replies, I think I have gleaned some things that do apply to our own country as well.
Any kind of ethics, is so hard to find nowadays.
People are too busy chasing after things to take joy in their jobs or studies. They are too wrapped up in the life they want to pay any attention to the life they have.
Why give something your hundred percent when it doesn't give you an adequate amount of satisfaction back, right?
Work is work, study is study.
Work isn't getting a job done well, studying isn't learning.
Its just business. You work because of a salary. You study and get marks because you need a job and the salary to live.
Just as an example: A good college admission requires at least 80% marks here, and the seats are usually filled within 90-95%. Brilliance is becoming too commonplace. And yet, most of these 'toppers' can't answer some easy questions when they are presented from a practical point of view, which they should have been able to do since they went through all those lessons, if they had actually tried to understand and not just mug up.
We are brought up nowadays with a whole set of different rules. Asking questions is not good, just follow what the others do and take the path of least resistance. Don't try to stand out when it doesn't reap you any benefit. Kill your creativity and any idea of doing something differently. Just get through life so you can afford that house, that car, that this and a thousand other things you don't really want, but have to get to keep up with the world.
And along this rat race, all your own work ethics are forgotten.
"I should clean this up" becomes "Let someone else clean the mess up. Why should I? I have better things to do." Peple atre too concentrated on the 'I' and 'Me's to look beyond their own self.