By the time I finally take my last breath, I'll have everything figured out.

And that just seems so unfair to me.

Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Virtue Signal. I'm Bill Whittle with my friend Alfonso Rachel.

So, back when our culture was considerably less toxic and cynical, especially cynical,

there's an expression that people used to say quite a lot. I remember it growing up as a kid

and used to be kind of a staple of your kind of elementary school education and your kind of religious education and so on.

And that statement was, no good deed goes unrewarded.

And for the last 50 years or 40 years, certainly, I haven't heard that term.

What I hear now is no good deed goes unpunished.

It's a measure of our culture becoming obviously a lot more cynical. What I wanted to explore with you today is whether you think this trend is actually

a real trend or whether it's just, you know, one of those things where you're looking back and thinking

things used to be better in the past. But on a number of occasions, especially

recently, I got asked to do little favors, significant favor, but, you know, nothing backbreaking

or anything. And what I discovered was over the course of several months, the demand just

get larger and larger and larger and larger and

larger and larger. And it made me think, oh, well, no good deed goes unpunished. You know,

I volunteered to do this. It's just a professional thing. It's got nothing to do a daily wire

for those who are out there playing the guessing game. But basically, it was just a sense of, you know, I'm being taking advantage of here.

My wife Natasha has this happen to her an awful lot too, which will do favors for friends or people,

and they just keep wanting more, more, more.

And you end up kind of feeling like a chump and a doormat.

And I don't want to feel that way about donating time to things I care about. I don't want to feel that way about donating time to things I care

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