It’s because the economy now has very little connection to the economic well-being of about 80% of the population. We’ve become a cash crop through which money is channeled from the government to the elite.
You are being farmed. That is what it boils down to.
So long as you don’t rock the boat, give your vote to the uniparty [thus validating it], and pay taxes they don’t give a crap about you.