Desperate people with a desperate mentality are almost constitutionally incapable of building.
They want to wake up one day and *poof* just like that all their problems are solved.
Well there are more desperate people now than ever before.
Why?
There are three main reasons as far as I can tell:
Doomscrolling - Anger and negativity is the most common addiction in the world. If you’re a typical person, you spend all day every day reading content that’s been tailored by the godless algorithm into making you feel like the world is oppressing YOU in particular (it’s nice to be so important, huh?). This leads to a rise in self-pity. You desperately want to find a way out of your negative emotions. Becoming rich overnight seems like the surefire way to make that happen.