The problem is that in this scenario, a person lives for work, and does not work for life. Most people do not see other ways, and therefore they try to legitimize this way of life, when almost all of their day is spent at work. And it doesn't even matter if you like your work or not. The main problem is that other people impose rules on you by which you must live. A person does not have time to use free time on weekends or vacations to think about alternative sources of income that do not require him to work 9 hours a day, 5 or 6 days a week. He is just glad that he finally has a well-deserved two or three week vacation, during which, at best, he can afford not to think about work (although over time there are fewer and fewer such people, because with the spread of instant messengers and free Internet calls, the employee remains constantly available, and is not really distracted from work, he does not receive high-quality unloading).
Another reason for this schedule is that people don't really know what to do outside of work. It is much easier to dream about how you would spend time on your hobbies if there was no work, but only a few do it. People get bored, they don't know what to do with themselves. Moreover, in the modern world, for most people, self-esteem and self-image depend on career advancement. A person does not know who he really is, what he wants and why he lives. And so he needs a system that will answer these questions. Then he will know that he is an accountant, or an SMM manager or a realtor. Then everything becomes clear: how to live, what status you have, what you can count on. And who still asks himself the question of who he is, outside of his work and specialisation?
A sense of passion and dedication to your work elevates you above those who go to work out of necessity. But in fact, these categories of people are not much different from each other, because both of them simply play by someone else's rules and support a system that is beneficial only to those who figured out how to get out of it after all. Perhaps if more people thought about how they can create conditions for themrseves in which they would not have to work for others, work to survive, how not to be a function and a simple performer, it would become clear that there is a huge amount of work in the world which is absolutely useless. And that humanity, in fact, has both time and resources to finally devote time to humanitarian (in the broadest sense of the word), and not utilitarian, reproducing and consumer development.