Post #3132366 · Elektrine

2025-06-12 06:35 UTC

@@techsinger@tweesecake.social You also have to keep in mind that the speaker was addressing a specific audience. People who go to seminars and are into self-improvement are often the givers who want to make the world a better place. They tend to give more than take, which may not be typical of everyone. So when the speaker asked that question, the result is not surprising. If you were to ask a different group of people, you may get different results. In my experience, certain communities are exactly like you described, but there are also communities that are exactly like @@morganth@social.tchncs.de described.

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@techsinger@tweesecake.social 2025-06-12 13:06

@scott That's certainly possible. I was not considering anything about the talk @morganth@social.tchncs.de attended only because I knew nothing about it, it might have been a work/corporate seminar, one for a particular group, something at a conference... I just saw it off the boost, as it were. It's very possible that other people would have answered the question differently. Having said that, it's worth keeping in mind that many people would answer that they wanted to help, only to be seen as giving that answer in any group. There is still, I'm pleased to say, a social stigma to saying "I'm in it for myself and not interested in anyone else, make what you want to of that". That has lessened recently, but it hasn't yet disappeared.

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