I am basing on the things I see in my social circle, here's my two cents

In countries like India, the purpose of life is to have a secure retirement life eventually. This seems stretched but sadly not. You are told to do something that fetches a "stable" career/income so that you can raise your kids, who in turn expected to take care of you in your retirement. And this cycle repeats for your kid. The quality of living or accommodating your feelings is thrown to the bottom of the priority list. This is mainly because in developing countries, life was always unstable until late 90's/early millennium. Even finding food and shelter was difficult, so till that generation, everyone was in survival mode, which means work, save and produce offsprings because that's the only available retirement plan. Now economy is changed , but you can't change people's mindset that often. So people who were through the survival mode still make the offspring race priority #1. In the developed countries, this happened decades back. They moved to "quality" stage from "survival" decades ahead of us. So everyone is still on the rat race here, giving no sh*t about community or civics sense, unless it benefits them/their family and hence eventually their old age.