Sorry for my poor English: I mean "most lives are lived by defaults" because we live in a society that prize and push Ford-model workers, pyramidal organization

Sorry for my poor English: I mean "most lives are lived by defaults" because we live in a society that prize and push Ford-model workers, pyramidal organization. So most people simply follow the stream, do thing different is simply to hard these days. In a future utopia perhaps we can have a different society but that's is utopia today. It is more clear?