I am always wondering why people don't consider work as part of their lifes. It always has been. People always worked. Back in the day they went hunting all day to not die. Now we write code to not die. So what's the difference? Work and life have the same meaning to me
Today we work for money and spend money to live, the two are linked but also disassociated. I find it that the most successful people are the ones who find joy in seeing "number go up" (money go up) as their work and life. The people who want to use money are the ones who find the least joy in getting more of it.
In many cases it's just an unfortunate reality of poverty. In some cases this is because of bad life choices making people choose ever more expensive life-styles that require ever more money-focused job choices.