Cuz we’re a society full of propagandized people who constantly victim blame.
I would recommend taking all of the shame out of getting ripped off. Shame only helps the person who ripped you off because by not discussing and naming and blaming the people who did it due to your own shame, you help them get away with it and victimize others.
This is the land of the fee, and the home of the rip-off. We’ve nearly all been ripped off either knowingly or unknowingly many times in our lives.
Other people actually giving a damn enough to do something other than post about it. I protested in the past and absolutely nobody gave a shit and it had zero effect. I don’t even think the protest was covered on the news.
I suspect that for any average American (or even a single digit percentage of them) to bother getting involved things are going to have to get extremely bad.