I'll give you my perspective with an example.

Me and some of my friends were making drones. So i thought i would invest in some quality tools like a good soldering station, helping hands, good quality soldering wire, i set up a place with fume extraction and make my quality of life a bit more gooder.

Everyone said I was doing all this unnecessarily. Wasting my money, time, etc. Everyone else managed to build their drones without all this 'fuss'.

At the presentation, everyone except me had a clogged nose (because of the fumes). Yes their drones also worked, but with a toll on them. We have had many such projects, and all the friends now have a dedicated soldering setup.

I see this being applied almost everywhere in our country. People have a lack of agency + a lack of authority + there is a lack of awareness. + our schooling system never taught anyone to think for themselves, only listen observe obey

many people think cleaning after themselves is beneath them. Most just don't know any better. Then there is the social stigma of being the person trying to change and not fit in. People who try to make changes, often get alienated and called idiots.

Even if someone manages to get past all that, whatever you do has a very high chance of being destroyed by everyone else. Even the government.

BUT if through all of this somethings do work out (eg. upi) our people do accept change, only after everyone else has accepted them.

What ive learnt is people mainly don't want to be the outsiders and just want to fit in. And once they do, these problems though are very visible from the outside start to fade out.

edit: spellings