Rationalists embrace reality. Money addicts embrace status and appearance (even worse in Asia with the concept of 'losing face' avoiding to be accountable by any means) and that's a recipe to collapse. The Western world was all about commiting mistakes, forgiving then but to fix them later. That was valued, now no one cares. Because they don't offer actual products any more, just the 'envolope', as the Asians do. Appearance it's more imoprtant than the object itself.

Now, back to the Western world. I've seen Gen-Zers just buying a game to show the actual process of unboxing and showing it and then later to place it back in the shelf and not touching it back ever. Social media makes this and worse. It's almost a 'status makeup' for men. And OFC this polarizes the society like crazy, there are no 'calm centrist people' any more, or they are shunned down fast, from either radical left or the radical right.

Healthcare should be state regulated, as food regulations which should be harder too? You are a commie. Oh, you are against uncontrolled inmigration with no background checks, against telecomms' regulation (except for amateur hamradio bands and net neutrality and privacy) and in favour of small co-operative based companies, as Mondragon in Spain? You must be a money grabbing, spoiled, poshy and cocky kid against socialism.

Even if you are pro-taxes and proportional fines on commiting misdemeanors.