Any ordered system requires work. Chaos is what happens on its own. The lawyer-clerk class expects the minions to obey and do the work to maintain the system just as the people who repaired the Roman water systems did.
But the students in our schools are interested in play or crime for those who profit from it.
The Soviets were able to fool the peasants and the urban lower classes for several generations since they took over a central Asian type society.
In this country even the lawyers are having to compete for high paying positions. The illegals and the H1B visa legals are not going to be able to run the system.
I talk to the folks who do the work for the bosses public and private. The so called intellectuals should not be so confident of their future.