This is because all decisions that matter are driven at the "always low prices" checkouts (Advertising and prices are the only information that Consumers pay attention to). The costs of being a Net Extractive species is externalized (the heat in the oceans) and hidden from the population so that profits and prophets can sell their wares. As long as everyone thinks "sales tax is regressive", we won't realize how regressive we already are as a species.

Competition, Religion (exclusion), Nationalism, and the business of busyness are all part of the process that the System of systems uses to destroy the future of our places for profit so that we turn to purveyors of convenience and cheap crap to keep us distracted and sick.

We are trained to vote once every 4 years for someone who might not kill us in our beds, but we vote billions of times every day for those who surely are, and we don't know how expensive those votes have become.

Meanwhile, the 'solution' that our Glorious Leaders have come up with for 'inflation'(actual costs) is to raise the profits of banks.