Yes.
In the short term not much will change and no one will react. By the time they want to react, they’ll play into a fascist crackdown.
Look into the Business Plot. This is basically the result of a century of planning between business interests and religious fanatics with too much money.
As long as capitalism is propagandized as a good thing, civilization will continue to face this issue of the few exploiting the many.
Do you believe every human deserves the same rights and dignities? It’s not possible to make a cell phone without relying on slave labor in the supply chains.
Profit is unpaid labor. As long as we normalize giving at the profits to those that already have everything, civilisations will continue to implode until one makes a mistake of such hubris everyone dies. Look at PFAS. One day we will unleash something we can’t contain and we’ll be dead before we can detect it or treat it.
Our species simply will not survive because we’re too eager to shit where we sleep just so we don’t have to walk all the way to the bathroom.
That’s the long and short of it. Your average American has the functional understanding of a five year old because they don’t know what they haven’t been taught which is most of everything.
You ask a first grade class if they want ice cream for breakfast and they will basically never say no.
They want it because it makes them happy without understanding what makes them healthy.
Most people are level 1 Skyrim characters and only understand explicitly what they level up by doing… Which is usually as little as possible.
Many facets of society have been turned into Skinner boxes that reward people dopamine for doom scrolling, isolating, or being angry.
Even if one wants to argue the downfall of society was accidental and not malicious, those in power never really seemed to do anything but make shit worse regardless.
Even if the system is working as designed… This is the fucking end result and inspires no hope there won’t be a world wide economic collapse.