Where is this trend of selfishness and entitlement going to end?

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I've noticed more and more instances of people being rude, selfish and entitled being written about on here and on other social media. Examples include: people talking loudly / eating Pringles in theatre performances, people having TVs / music on loudly in shared wards in hospitals, people ignoring the highway code etc. In my work (teaching) I have seen an increase in parents get more and more demanding and entitled (e.g. refusing to provide school uniform, getting the school to change their procedures to suit them, arguing that they don't need to hear their children read etc).

It seems that as a society we have moved to become more selfish and less considerate.

Moving forward I can see that it's likely to get worse before it gets better. What can we do to try and reverse this trend?

Agree. The boomers Waitrose employ are the only rude people I encounter regularly. Surly, entitled and grumpy as fuck 😅

We have a less equal society than we did. I think these incidences are a symptom.
More equal societies are better for everyone.

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Sorry but people do not need religion to know how to treat each other, how insulting.

Of course people will eat food in theatre and cinema.. they wouldn't sell food or allow snacks in otherwise.

There has been a steady erosion of respect over the years. I'm 36 when I was at school I would have got an earful from my parents if I had been disrespectful to a teacher at school. That wasn't the norm though, many kids were downright terrors and they have now grown up, are adults themselves and have kids and so the cycle continues. There's nothing funny about being so dippy you can't get your kid to school on time with the correct kit. Nowadays there is an excuse for everything.

I went to see my two kids in their nativity last week and so many parents were in their phones during it. It's distracting and unfair to the kids. Not everyone would have a dying relative they need to keep tabs on or another emergency situation where they would need to keep an eye on the phone.

I noticed a shift during the pandemic - I was less willing to put myself out for others when I was worried about my families wellbeing. Perhaps people got stuck in that mode and have not adjusted?

The one that I definitely notice and that drives me insane is people playing music or games or films out loud on public transport with no earphones.

I was sat with my partner and this one man was playing a game on his phone, sound on loud, the same repetitive noises over and over.

So my boyfriend decided to do the same to see if the other guy would get the hint. Eventually he did.

There seems to be an expectation that if you don't want to hear it you should put earphones in rather than that you should use earphones if you want to play something.

Well, teaching children good manners and consideration for others from an early age would be a start, but since a lot of their parents are entitled so-and-so's who think the world has to earn their respect, that probably isn't going to work.

Tell me about it, I work in schools. There are lots of parents who don’t attach much importance to manners or respect, unsurprisingly they seem to have disrespectful bad mannered kids…..

I’m sure a more equal society is better for everyone, but up until after WW2 there was an very unequal society and no benefits, free health care and little employment law.
Was there less entitlement then? I guess so, and there was certainly less crime such as muggings and burglary.