No not in the slightest. I grew up in a very poor community without "social services" where co-operation was important to our survival. I see that still in peasant communities: so much hard work requires co-operation so that people can eat through the winter. Families stayed together out of necessity, and kids worked alongside parents. Very different from buying my food ready-wrapped in the supermarket.

On a personal level, some kids on my block still grew up thinking that their needs were important, however!

There is a difference between co-operating in a stable community where self-sacrifice brings respect, and co-operating in the city where people are very competitive and self absorbed.
It's easy to gain respect for my behaviours in the countryside but in the city other skills are important: asserting who I am with strangers for example. More emphasise on psychological power games and communication. Less physical doing.

People only take advantage of me up to a point, and then they learn that I have solid boundaries. I had one guy working for me who is older and who kept calling in sick. He owned, and I figured, that his health was letting down. I bit my lip in patience for six months, then I got him to finish up his work and he retired. Stuff like that falls by its own weight if I don't stress too much about it, and that gives both people space to be human.

Also my parents died/ left when I was very young and learning to get along with other people was important to my survival.

But within friendships, the boundary setting is more subtle and that's where I let myself down.