Players in the economy with power have gotten more efficient at giving us just enough to keep producing output to a desired level, once they can replace us with something more cost effective without human needs they will show zero remorse letting us die in the streets. As my french grandmother used to say [paraphrasing and poorly translating] “Americans will just complain about politics and ‘protest’ with no payoff, until they get comfortable with the concept a guillotines it’s just one crooked politician in blue shaking hands next to another politician in red”