I think you're too harsh. I can certainly agree that a lot of people find it difficult if not impossible to buck the system and this can certainly be seen as a fault, but not as "their" fault, per se. I think that everyone does what they do to increase their happiness and/or decrease their unhappiness, which means that whatever they do or don't do in their lives is predicated on achieving those goals. I believe the problem for most is that they can't see any better way of doing things and so they just continue doing what they're doing, being the proverbial cog in the wheel as it were. What they need is better information to see that there are better ways for doing things. Some people have this better information and given the right circumstances can impart it to those who don't. Saving the world from its predicaments depends on this transfer of information from those who have it to those who don't.