@Richard_Littler Then they should seek to understand. If there was no real reason (as you seem to be implying), it wouldn't be happening. But it is happening, so there is a real reason. So what is it?

I think the most compelling explanation (that I've seen so far) is the one from Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher (specifically pages 21 and 22). Virtually everyone with the power to stop that tiny fraction doesn't want to. Not because they approve of what that fraction is doing, but because they don't believe that a world is possible where power is not so concentrated.

They don't know how they could ever participate in society without somehow, at some point, giving a little more money to some capitalist. And so they don't fight for it. If they make any demands at all, they limit themselves to just mitigating the effects of the latest catastrophe. But they cannot imagine a world where such catastrophes would never happen. It's no wonder they don't try to achieve it.