This is an easy one. The media has brainwashed society into thinking that we all have to partake in this rat race in order to win, or more realistically survive. What they're not telling us is that this is race is for the treasure under the rainbow.. We'll burn ourselves out before we can reach something that doesn't exit in the first place.
Governments created schools, universities etc so they can push people into subjects they're not guaranteed to enjoy or finish with a debt that appeared to be a favour that was obviously contributed to their money making schemes.
Half the problem is also parents these days. Back in the old generation it was the most educated thing to do to get a college degree and become employed by a great company. But in this generation with the crap economy we learnt nothing about money, investing, business, entrepreneurship. There doesn't seem to be any innovation within education and it's a fact that it's one of the biggest scales of income the government receives.

I'm a year 10 drop out and my teachers and idiots in my class just frowned upon me. I always laughed because I always knew that when I walk down town city in Melbourne, I see all the sheep following the heard, and I observe around and think of the matrix right away.. it's a good feeling.. it just means when the times right you've opened your mind up to something else. If you follow the heard you'll get caught up in the havoc of "omg I need a house, a bigger house, a car, a better car", until you're close to a mid life crisis and don't enough courage to live the life you wished you did when you were young. So why is the highest divorce rates in western countries?

Because no westernised countries don't mass media brain wash them. They use it so after a whole **** long day at work you go and zone out watching tv or what not and it hypnotises us. Our minds get lost in the TVs world where we feel content. Content to watch next episode and the next until something else comes out