It is indeed. I had another thought that seemed somewhat fruitful, but a bit too vast for a simple SteemIt blog. At least that's the case whilst I'm still not getting any votes.

We are all shoved through the system so quickly, and nothing repeats. We get into school at 3 or 4, then move to primary schooling, straight to secondary schooling, kept to strict timelines, then it is expected to go straight to college/uni where you DO NOT fail. Then by the end of this we are all broke as hell so we move as quick as possible into full-time work.

The vastness of human creativity and excellence didn't occur because people were shoved along a one speed conveyor belt.

Like everything in our culture, with some thought we will see that these attitudes between the expectation of non-failure and the conveyor belt are going to be tightly coupled, along with many of the other values of society. By the end of the thought process, when I do take the journey, I end up finding the fundamentals of modern economics being tightly coupled with these features of society.