You're not wrong, though here's one underlying reason why it's playing out this way: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-

You're not wrong, though here's one underlying reason why it's playing out this way: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-w... Excerpt: "In the past century, the American conception of work has shifted from jobs to careers to callings—from necessity to status to meaning. In an agrarian or early-manufacturing economy, where tens of millions of people perform similar routinized tasks, there are no delusions about the higher purpose of, say, planting corn or screwing bolts: It’s just a job."