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It truly is sad, but people's minds won't be swayed without totally restructuring our economic and political systems which dictate their material interests, and that won't happen without a total revolutionary war against the system. I don't like it anymore than the next person but that's just the logical conclusion to the reality we exist in.
Humans, as a species, are generally very stupid, selfish, and simplistic with short attention spans. We all simply want the easiest and most effective way to meet our material needs, regardless if a less convenient method would have better results, unless we actively train ourselves, through years of education, to be in the habit of going against our instincts and thinking critically about the world around us.
Unfortunately, due to our current systems, many people have tied their ability to meet those needs with the economic interests of the owning class, which intrinsically is oppositional to the needs of the working class. Most don't understand that the small gains from doing so are simply going to be funneled towards the owning class anyway. Yet, it allows them to be better off than others and that is enough to scare them into contentment with their lot in life.
Additionally, the system is designed to be so convoluted that those who are uneducated in how it fundamentally works can readily be convinced of certain falsehoods, such as increasing wages results in increased price of goods or that immigrants are "stealing jobs", because they simply have no understanding of how those claims are blatant falsehoods.
And they don't question it, because it plays on the inherent flaws of human psychology by appealing to basal fears of the unfamiliar and playing on how our minds are predisposed to certain logical fallacies.