Maybe choose one or two source to back up your point. Nobody's going to go through your wall of links.

Don't expect the world to reward your good behavior. You will find your own internal motivation, or maybe not. But judging others never ends well. Just focus on your own actions. Nobody says being a good human being is easy...

Shaolin, and buddhist tradition could be something for the Chinese to really be proud of. It's a shame they haven't managed to protect their heritage from greed and abuse in the modern times.

This is a proper shower thought

How old is your account? I wonder if this happens for 10+ years redditors too

This was named enshittification, and it's truly everywhere now.

Came here to write this exact thing. I remember stalking a forum of some loose circle of friends and learning about the life in a subculture in one another city in the early 2000s. So much everyday wisdom (and dumb memes) got lost when it was shut down. Back then folks were not afraid of sharing their private life online without a filter.

Indeed! Hope you had a chance to be nice today too

Absolutely, and I'm happy to hear you see it that way too. Online platforms don't really incentivize that though. That's just my lukewarm take on that

Of course there is incentive for online virtue signaling - all the likes and shares and attention.

Ok well maybe there is a very very tiny incentive (compared to real world behaviour) but it really pales in comparison to all the general cold-heartedness

Excuse my phrasing, but I stand by what I wrote. Tried to keep it brief.

Online platforms today do not offer any incentive for true positive behaviour, due to lack of community.

By the way your response and all the downvoting kinda proves my point. Compassion shows also in how you process what you read