More and more often, I notice a situation where people you grew up with, communicated with on equal terms, worked at the same job, etc. began to turn into certain beings who began to regard you solely as a source of enrichment\information\connections\free labor, etc.

Literally, a person just evaluates how you can be used for personal gains and that's it!

A person disappears when you contact him, he freezes off communication, and then when he needs it, he abruptly gets in touch and demands something… not getting what he want, starts to cause feelings of guilt, like old friends, etc. It looks very disgusting from the outside!

Or the situation is that you coordinate the date and time of the meeting with the person and there is no information at the agreed hour. Then it turns out that he «got» a better offer to spend time and he doesn't even warn you...

Ostentatious bragging about new connections and earnings. Like what you're doing is complete bullshit! But I'm a handsome guy who did this, got to know someone, etc. When you ask to «show me the ropes» he freezes...

I understand that this is the result of rotten capitalism… but the number of such transformed people is growing… It's like people are being replaced

The post does not carry a special semantic load, I just wanted to make observations.