I think social engineering over the long-term has conditioned the masses to feel like the cognitive path of least resistance is probably the right path or the more virtuous one.
Yes. they have made it appear that the workless life is the easy path, when it leads to an increasingly difficult future full of suffering.
And yep - compartmentalization at the granular level - makes us all increasingly fragmented from each other, with everyone an enemy. "Divide and conquer" in the digital age.