Fascinating article, and I wonder how much more this evolving line of thought will teach us before we see an actual pivot in American / western attitudes toward money.

A few thoughts:

- America is by far NOT the capital of capitalism. Most Americans go to work, go home. spend time with family, pay bills, and buy stuff. Chinese culture is generally much more avid in its pursuit of money - and status, and prestige, and power

- if we believe there is no longer any point in working hard, then what would we like to replace this activity with? There is always poverty - but I don't recommend it.

- Japan saw a marked decline in appetite for hard work and pursuit of success, sometime in the late 90's as the era of the "Land of the rising sun" came to an end. But overall, the general feeling of ants on an ant hill hasn't really gone away

- perhaps millennials and gen-Zers are confusing working hard for a boss-man with capitalism, which isn't really connected to a boss, or working hours, or a job. Capitalism is a principle of capital working for you rather than you forking for someone. People sweating it in large cubicle farms with crack-the-whip boss-man in charge, are not capitalists they are employees