Comment by TuringTest

Simple explanation for the "Why" is that caring about something takes mental resources, and our consumerist free market is optimized towards extracting all our available mental cycles and put them either to produce or to consume, for the benefit of the companies that make up the economy.

Life is easier if you just follow the script and go along. Any remaining resources for "caring" about your life and your best interests must be detracted from the race to make a living, and not everyone is in a financial position to afford that luxury. Quite a departure from the vision of the founding fathers who designed our political system, who were people in a position to care for such things.