North America was the industrial powerhouse of the world until quite recently, and it also happened to be completely organized around the need for settlers to buy up and captialize on property. It is a culture centered on adversarial productivity; there’s a reason fascism has always boiled under the surface.
What you earn and what you do….never understand asking that when you meet someone. Canadians seem to do it too.
The vast majority of us spend 40 hours per week on that thing, it’s a big part of our identity.
This is true of a lot of the world. We don’t judge people on what they do or earn though, or make it our entire character.
North America was the industrial powerhouse of the world until quite recently, and it also happened to be completely organized around the need for settlers to buy up and captialize on property. It is a culture centered on adversarial productivity; there’s a reason fascism has always boiled under the surface.