Is that you, Karl Marx?
Some people do have to be told what to do. Take a look around you. Go to the inner city, to the ghettos, to the bread lines. Take a look at some of the low-level worker drones and laborers. Look at their various addictions, their failures, their lack of knowledge concerning even basic subjects (their own finances, health, nutrition, why motivation is required for personal success, etc). Whether through ignorance, poor impulse control, willful stupidity, poor choices, various addictions, or just plain bad luck, a lot of people who are at these levels (and who remain there) will be there forever unless someone tells them how to get out (or in many cases, forces them).
If they weren't forced into civilization by government regulation (schooling, basic decency enforced by laws, etc), many people would live like animals. In fact, some do anyway.