Once you delve underneath the surface level talks, the utmost levels of polite dishonesty in the society would lead you to a place where people prioritize saving their own skin rather than building a collective consciousness. And that's not really the big issue here, since everyone should try to do so. The issue here is the categorical inevitability of this being the leading cause of what everyone who are categorized as "permanent underclass" (almost bottom ~98% percent of the global populace) are going through now.

They flow their minds with commentary bullshit, literally pursue the fake money (which is created in 'ex nihilo', distributed as debt and charged with interest) and stay in their pre-defined bubble.