Society is inherently a prisoners dilemma, and you are biased to prefer your captors.

We’ve had the automation to provide the essentials since the 50s. Shrieking religious nut jobs demanded otherwise.

You’re intentionally distracted by a job program as a carrot-stick to avoid the rich losing power. They can print more money …carrots, I mean… and you like carrots right?

It’s the most basic Pavlovian conditioning.