"I really like how corporate America ruins you as a person within two years. If you had any aspirations to do anything useful for humanity, they gone."

-Text from my best friend from graduate school

Yeah, when students finally have to take responsibility and foot their own life, things often change a lot.

Another effect is that they become less in favour of "doing good things with other people's money" as soon as that involves the state taking their own hard earned money away.

Two year? Ha, I can burn your youthful enthusiasm to the ground in six months.

There are worst countries when it comes to that. Eg. in Greece, where the taxation of so high, that no startup can even afford to exist in Greece.