"The pathway from school to job is nebulous to" everyone, now a days. This has been decoupling in western civ over the last couple generations. People, includ

"The pathway from school to job is nebulous to" everyone, now a days. This has been decoupling in western civ over the last couple generations. People, including kids, will put up with all kinds of ridiculous behaviors and treatment for a long term reward. Slowly take away the reward over a couple generations and people WILL stop responding in a Pavlovian fashion and the game is over. The kids are right. In the old days abusive school system lead to a materially successful career. But with an economy holding more people than productive jobs, why put up with the abuse if you're not going to get anything out of it anyway? In the old days, hazing led to automatic full membership in the cool kids club. Not any more. Unsurprisingly, hazing isn't too popular anymore other than some vague traditional "when I was a kid they abused me too" sense.