Bribery and plagiarism is rife here, because they've somehow learnt that the actual process of learning is obsolete, and we can all be experts if we have enough money. Sigh.
That is happening in the U.S. too, but they try to pretend it is not. That is where my reference to sometimes thinking people got their degree out of a cracker jacks box came from.
I believe a large amount of the population actually never finds what they are passionate about. They just plod along and follow what they've found works within the system.