The rat race is definitely at least partly the fault of the education system.
I know in my case the most stress (so far, I'm only 30) I've ever felt was during high school and college. You're only a few failed exams away (or in the case when transitioning from high school to college only one failed exam away) to prove you're worth some shit to society, that shit takes a toll on a young mind.
And I'm one of the lucky ones since I work in IT where jobs are abundant, the stress just fucking continues for most people.
I think a big part of the problem is that people don't view education as a form of labor, so there has never been a wide spectrum push for a "forty hour school week" or something like that. Every year the expectations get higher, there's a new standardized test to study for, and in SE Asia there's another hour of night school you have to attend.
But no matter what age a person is or what they're doing there's only a certain amount of useful work you're going to get out of them every day, and demanding that much is also inhumane because that ensures that every moment of free time the person has is spent exhausted.
The rat race is definitely at least partly the fault of the education system.
I know in my case the most stress (so far, I'm only 30) I've ever felt was during high school and college. You're only a few failed exams away (or in the case when transitioning from high school to college only one failed exam away) to prove you're worth some shit to society, that shit takes a toll on a young mind.
And I'm one of the lucky ones since I work in IT where jobs are abundant, the stress just fucking continues for most people.
I think a big part of the problem is that people don't view education as a form of labor, so there has never been a wide spectrum push for a "forty hour school week" or something like that. Every year the expectations get higher, there's a new standardized test to study for, and in SE Asia there's another hour of night school you have to attend.
But no matter what age a person is or what they're doing there's only a certain amount of useful work you're going to get out of them every day, and demanding that much is also inhumane because that ensures that every moment of free time the person has is spent exhausted.