You don't have to work and basic needs are all catered for.Yeah, I suppose the series tend to be vague about why exactly Earth's society is so much better put together than ours are right now. But the idea that a news service well-regarded enough to be able to convince Picard to do an interview would act like this is pretty depressing.
How that would change a society is difficult to predict, and Star Trek has never really been particularly interested in exploring that subject, except in Picard's lofty rhetoric to Lily Sloane.
One thing that is vaguely hinted at in PIC, but not really spelled out, is that the combination of the Romulan catastrophe, the Utopia Planitia attack and the synth ban has materially affected Federation citizens in some way.
Perhaps it goes further back and the Dominion War had a big impact on the civilian populations? At the very least we know Betazed was occupied. Home Front/Paradise Lost shows that Earth's population is just as susceptible to panic and manipulation as we are today.