That struggle is for the individual to figure out for themselves, not the state.
The problem is that we DON'T crank out enough factory workers. We crank out a lot of college graduates and assorted shoe-gazing mopes who complain that they do not have a nice job given to them as an entitlement they think they were promised upon graduation and demand that those who have worked for their success hand it over to them since they're so unhappy and have been so misled.
What we need are more carpenters, plumbers, electricians, machinists, boatwrights, ditch-diggers, tent-makers, tailers, tinkers, candlestick makers, and skilled professionals of all sorts. Instead, we have a nation of college-educated lumps who believe that happiness is a right they were promised and have not been given.
Screw that and screw them. More voc-tech, more building things, less promising happiness as a given. I could give two craps if people are miserable; I'd rather they were gainfully employed and paying taxes. If they are also happy, then yay for them, but that's their concern, not mine and not the government's.