I look around me in this world, and it seems people so often live by a paradigm of either wanting to reap things they never sowed... or people who want to reap before they have sowed. We are really not very good "farmers" in our own lives, anymore...

As you said, people now expect to reap what they haven’t sown.

Back in my day, I would do everything at work, even if it wasn't my direct responsibility, to prove my usefulness to my employer. But when I started my own business, an employee sat and waited, doing little to generate sales because she wanted to see how much of a raise I'd give her first.