They can't do math at The Economist.
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Honestly I wonder if some of it isn't people in super remote areas or otherwise disconnected from conventional communities. If you live on a mountain with no internet or TV and drive into town once a month for groceries or live in an underground mole people tunnel system it's probably easier to not give a fuck. Like obviously these things will still affect you, but not in any immediate way that's gonna slap you in the face tomorrow.
If somebody catches that guy at the grocery store at the end of the month and gets him to fill out a survey he's probably just like "...who? Oh a coupon though!" And the mole person will do it for a $5 subway card. That's still at least a cookie these days. And they'll both just check "meh" for everything and hand the survey back and take their coupon. I talked to a dude at the bus stop for a while that said getting his phone stolen had actually turned out to be really great for his mental health aside from needing to ask me when the next one was coming. Like I get that this is important stuff but sometimes ignorance looks pretty damn blissful.