In France, you cannot talk or say anything bad or dissident against Muslims and Islam or you'll get mugged, attacked, harassed or beheaded in the name of prophet Mohammad. In the UK, you cannot say that Muslims are the main problem behind the myriad of sexual assaults and crimes in the country or you'll be branded as a racist bigot and the police will put you to the slammer. In the USA, say anything that shows pride of being white and an American makes you a fascist. In Germany, anything that's right-wing in opinion is illegal and can get you to jail. In Sweden, talk about how the Muslims have destroyed your country inside and outside and your fate is worse than those who raped or murdered.
Have you Westerners lost your will to fight to preserve yourselves? Are really this desentized to the point that you're more worried about what the media will have to say against you if you stand up for yourself and your right to exist? Maybe it's cowardice.
Why do you presume I meant people would chose to spend their 24 hours playing video games? That doesn't add up to me past a certain age.
My meaning was more between choosing a path of "Well, I guess I went to school, and now I'm working this office job where I spend 40 hours staring at a screen under fluorescent lights doing work I don't like, plus an hour and change in transit every day, but I guess that's how it is." vs. all the other options out there. Because there are other options out there. I've got a friend for example who doesn't have the kids but has the mortgage and works part time at a garage + also gets paid for picking up/delivering cars that are being sold long distance - he likes the driving, plus it pays pretty well to drive half way across the country, then back again. It's sure as hell not an office job, yet he's happier than at any office job he's worked.
Not saying office jobs are death, but like Peterson says, mostly people have jobs not careers. You can still provide for your family and find meaning in your work that way, but you can also find work that's more agreeable with you. There's a sense of "If I don't follow the path, rise up the ladder, then it's all awful, nothing else works." And that's blatantly untrue - we're just like horses with blinders in a sense, looking at that one solution, the whole highschool > uni > office thing. There are other options.