I rather do and don't sleep 2 days i'll go hard to husle instead of working long hours and getting nothing.
I belive many people have developed mindset that they will choose the things and jobs where they earn most.
I think yes we have economical dowturn or confused situation still people not interested to do for small money nothing.
Also It's because people see a lot other people same age or even younger don't work but make a lot money by doing something like investing trading.
General attitude towards work getting lower because of people see around them wealth all this nice cars they are everywhere too.
But people want to work hard one Week and earn 10k-100k maybe to develope their cryptocurrency project or something yes it's hard but atleast after this they can take rest next few months and relaxing, instead of waking up daily and working for nothing.
It's better to work and get less pay than to stay at home doing nothing and keep searching for bigger hobs.. However, it's really true that a lot of us are after the big paying jobs but some of these people do not have the skills to work in a high paying companies. Basically someone that's looking for a way to work in a big company must be educated because none educated person can not work in a big company, even though the person is kind of lucky to work there the pay will not be big cause they pay the person according to his or her qualifications.
Before you think of investment, you must also consider to hold then keep on accumulating for long term and must also have a capital and a business or jobs that will keep on generating wealth and money that you can use as capital to accumulate for long term.