@mike

You raise some good points here, esp around work and the attitutde to work, we see the same problems in the UK, people quit over the most minor thing, usually as they are not getting their way, or they expect xyz from day one, thanks to the influencers we have things like quiet quitting which is doing the bare minimum work or perhaps just do what their job entails, where as being part of a team means you need to at times jump on other tasks to help.

Most of this appears to have come fromk the USA.

I have watched a few programs about education in China, it seems to me people have little choice but to buckle down and work hard at school, get the grades, so they get go to college then job, as there I guess is little in the way of welfare to help people.

I get the impression that there is, in the UK a sort of underclass of people who don't care about their kids education, don't care about themselves, otehrs or anything as long as they are getting what they want. It is costing our economy greatly.

Unless we change our attitude towards education and work generally and actually value this, nothing will change.

People have said the west is doomed, your article makes some good suggestions as to why it is doomed.