What’s income have to do with how you treat a shopping cart? I’ve been to in places in Asia with very poor (poor compared to the poor people in the US) people and they treated their shopping carts better than wealthy people in the US.
There is better social cohesion and respect for other people's property. Now, there are some oddities in that if they find you lying on the street hurt, most will pass you by and kind of look at you quizzically, but they also do have good samaritans, just not as many. The reason is often people will suspect the person who stopped to help stopped out of guilt, not because they were just trying to help.
>What’s income have to do with how you treat a shopping cart? I’ve been to in places in Asia with very poor (poor compared to the poor people in the US) people and they treated their shopping carts better than wealthy people in the US.
Would you say the difference in income in the places in Asia that you're describing were on the same level as in Manhattan?
There are very poor parts of America where people take more care of shopping carts, there are very rich parts of America where people take more care of shopping carts.
But a thing happens when you have a notable population of mentally ill homeless people living on the same streets that New York level wealthy citizens also use. The person I replied to is from Texas, where they round up inconvenient people and either bus them or fly them to other states - including New York. That's certainly one way to level out the income inequality in the region.
>There is better social cohesion and respect for other people's property. Now, there are some oddities in that if they find you lying on the street hurt, most will pass you by and kind of look at you quizzically, but they also do have good samaritans, just not as many.
On that note, comparing "places in Asia" to New York, you're going to also have to factor in the effects of (presumably) thousands of years of culture, vs barely four centuries in a rapidly developed melting pot of capitalism.
But this is a lot we're typing out in response to one person's weird conjecture. My point is that I think it's distasteful for someone from Texas to be giving a blanket statement that people from New York must be horrible people. If they spent any time in New York, with New Yorkers, I would hope they'd have a more informed view.
There is better social cohesion and respect for other people's property. Now, there are some oddities in that if they find you lying on the street hurt, most will pass you by and kind of look at you quizzically, but they also do have good samaritans, just not as many. The reason is often people will suspect the person who stopped to help stopped out of guilt, not because they were just trying to help.