For those asking you for a solution:

FairTax.org

Negotiate the prebate to be UBI and healthcare and raise the rate to end consumptionism.

The vast majority of political corruption is mechanized by the income tax code, and apathy of citizens is enabled by “always low prices”.

We can blame Greenspan, or the wealthy or the poor, but the bottom line is market civilization being systemically disconnected from physical risks and responsibilities so that consumers don’t know what they are doing with their lizard brain choices at the point of purchase.