>Show me an economy where a significant number of people didn't have insecure incomes Here in Germany and the 'German culture adjacent' countries (Switzerland/

>Show me an economy where a significant number of people didn't have insecure incomes Here in Germany and the 'German culture adjacent' countries (Switzerland/Austria/Benelux etc) that culture is still very much intact. When you turn 16 you can pick up a vocational program in the very large and still healthy Mittelstand, and you have a steady career for your entire life, decent pay, without having to have pretty much any universe education. The rat-race mentality and cultural divide into the 'cognitive class' and disenfranchised service work is not universal, it's a consequence of the de-industrialization that the Anglosphere in particular went through.