It’s good to help people out who never acknowledge it or repay you in any way.
Helping people is good for your soul, except when it’s bad for your soul, which is surprisingly often.
You can do someone a kindness and increase your own smugness, become delusional about your importance to them and the world, and get hooked on need for validation or a feeling of superiority. These are almost impossible to avoid, especially in a world that rarely treats them like vices and makes a big deal about signaling virtues and a small deal about living them.
This is why people who seem unmoved or ungrateful when you help them are wonderful. If your reaction is anger towards them, or a feeling your were ripped off, it’s a good sign you have some vices lurking in you and they just saved you from feeding them further.
Help without needing a thing. When you can’t, learn from it.
Here’s to the ungrateful moochers!