Those in the Imperial Core will never understand that what they consider unbearable hardship and boredom is actually a life of luxury that the vast majority of people on Earth cannot even imagine.
The international division of labor is 1000x more important and impactful than the domestic one.
I still think it's dystopian I hate white walled suburban people cubes. Like look at that place, it's a box for storing your P-zombies. That man has no connections to life or culture and probably owns rock climbing shoes but doesn't drink PBR. Like he's not suffering, he has biceps and pants that fit. He may not be capable of experiencing angst. But huge numbers of people are suffering to make that specific kind of subjective void possible.
Source; I am related to these people. They seem happy and I find that both uncanny and distressing. The Stepford Wives was a documentary (about spousal abuse weirdly enough, featuring a Disney engineer as the primary villain. Great movie, definitely worth watching for insight about middle class feminism in the 1970s)