It's not just the Puritan work ethic. The dearth of support and extreme scarcity of housing play a huge role. If you won't center your entire life around work,

It's not just the Puritan work ethic. The dearth of support and extreme scarcity of housing play a huge role. If you won't center your entire life around work, there's a long line of people who will, and your employer would happily hire one of them and throw you into the proverbial wood chipper of being unemploymed in the US.