...and overshadowing it all is *money*
......

what passes for value in this society has changed a lot in recent years. There are meta-skills and tricks in the manipulation of the money flow and deciding what gets rewarded. Professional athletes demand ever greater salaries, and the 'fun' of following sports is now an expensive hobby, and some resent it a lot.....People now have the idea that if they don't get what they want, or they are injured, they need to be compensated BIG TIME! ...and we all know what happens in people's heads when they feel the deck is stacked against them and they cannot win and keep losing ground... (like health insurance)....they get angry and want to hit something, or yell at someone.

Remember those films 40-50 years ago about how technology was going to make life easier and reduce the work week and let us play happily in our copious spare time?

And who remembers Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock"?....the boy weren't far wrong.