Honestly it's a combo of state derived indoctrination (gotta get into that grind, worker bee mode, go to college, etc work till death), cultural stagnation as everything is commodified, as well as leftover boomer era economic zeitgeist floating around
Honestly it's a combo of state derived indoctrination (gotta get into that grind, worker bee mode, go to college, etc work till death), cultural stagnation as everything is commodified, as well as leftover boomer era economic zeitgeist floating around