This is actually a common mindset in countries where a generation remembers famine-level poverty. I once discussed with some friends from various backgrounds o

This is actually a common mindset in countries where a generation remembers famine-level poverty. I once discussed with some friends from various backgrounds on the merits of doing higher education or going in for your passion after high-school and a friend from a remote countryside in Mexico explained "well, for me it was straighforward. Either I go to university, or I do farming my all life."