The answer is quite simple but no one wants to address the massive elephant in the room.

The future our father's made for us starting in the 1980s is barely live-able. We have continued that tradition forward, and offer nothing new and only most things are worse, and that's not addressing that most of our fathers due to medical technology still hold the majority (>50%) of political power rather than passing it on to the next generation and that is unfortunate because they will continue to do so until the day they die of old age.

If there is no hope for a better brighter future, people opt out. If you look at the massive amount of suffering, with the unlikelihood of success rational and intelligent people with no hope of a better life, and the prospect of the equivalent of slavery in the future, its not hard to see which of the options is a better option compared to suffering in unspeakable unknowable ways for years.

Secret systems have been put in place, that amount to the East German Stasi's wet dreams, and are being used against the citizenry without disclosure or due process.

If you look at the amount of agency people have today compared to two decades ago, you see a stark contrast. We have to take what companies say and accept it we have no choice. Concentration of industry has made it so you can't go to another company because they are all owned by the same main branch doing the same things.

Our methods for changing things for the better have been completely corrupted and eroded. We don't even have a voice for the most part because of media systems that have been designed to de-amplify and amplify certain narratives.

Worse yet, the people we have to choose from for our leaders are deluded, liars, and nearly completely corrupt, and I don't like saying that but its absolutely true. Just look at the fighting inflation act or whatever its called. We're going to fight inflation by printing more money, yeah that is not how it works, how deluded do you have to be to believe that?.

Every avenue you have for interacting with daily necessities has been reworked without individual rights in mind. A business can ignore you for 30 days before they have some semblance of legal liability. The courts ignore basic rights (abortion), and lack any credibility thanks to the continued but un-provable [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction]).

People being made to be dependent on the system that is on the brink of failure due to overwhelming overregulation and enforced culling of foods (see egg shortage).

Most US industry acts as an arm of government in nearly every respect where the government prohibits certain things of itself, it has Industry do those things for them instead of protecting our rights and limiting power as they swore to do by their oath's of office.

This is not a coincidence, its planned. One thing might be coincidence, nearly everything going in that direction is a plan.

The problem with the current trends are you need intelligence to solve these problems, and those who are intelligent simply want to have nothing to do with the problem because its a Kobayashi Maru so long as government gets in the way and they have and will continue to do so until your dead, likely from starvation in the near future.

We have at the upper end 10-50 years before most of humanity will likely be dead, and not enough time to change it because deluded leaders use tactics to delude the people. Its common in any totalitarian society, menticide or the killing of the mind, that is what we have to look forward to as the ponzi of the world reserve currency meets the economic calculation problem.