For the simplest reason, for 90% of people there is a no sense of purpose in life except settling for a 20K income and have a well settled family of four. FWIW

For the simplest reason, for 90% of people there is a no sense of purpose in life except settling for a 20K income and have a well settled family of four. FWIW, I see a lot of competent people in the United States with this mindset (different numbers, but the same mindset.) They work hard in college and learn what they're supposed to, and after college they keep up with the technologies required for their work. They are rarely superstar coders, but they are competent and productive. People like that end up exactly where society guides them. In the U.S., the society turns them into valuable professionals; in India, apparently the outcome is not so good.