Our era does not encourage deferred gratification, with celebrity being bestowed upon the young and wealth being generated by entrepreneurs who retire before their parents do.
It's a payment system that encourages instant gratification.
In fact, new technologies are encouraging delayed gratification and a return to the reading habits of earlier eras.
The letter has a lot of interesting things to say about character and virtue and how these are best supported in human-scale institutions; how the family is a school of love and sacrifice, and how we can support relationships in a world that encourages immediate gratification and is in danger of losing the precious art of negotiation and accommodation.
Keynes went on to list other one-time factors that had made possible the tremendous accumulation of capital that the Victorian belief in deferred gratification encouraged, such as the opportunity to invest in the New World's expanding economies and to import cheaply the New World's surplus produce.
The authorities believe that such liberalized sex education teaches youth how to obtain sexual gratification which would encourage sexual abuse of underage children.
They express the view that such liberalized sex education teaches youngsters how to obtain sexual gratification which would encourage sexual abuse of underage children.
We live in a time that promotes instant gratification and doesn't encourage perseverance enough and where quitting is often viewed as an option.
Skeptics noted that while affluent families might teach their children to delay gratification, in an effort to encourage financial and other forms of responsibility, children from disadvantaged homes learn that waiting to eat might mean not eating at all.
We need to engage toward solutions for injustice, poverty, economic opportunity, environmental abuse, dis-empowerment and so many more, but encourage a form of interaction that will not necessarily result in immediate gratification.
The growing availability of credit in this century, however, has brought those days to an end--undermining traditional moral virtues such as prudence, diligence, and the delay of gratification while encouraging reckless consumerism.
