There's a very loud group of venerated tech bros whose strategy for the last 5+ years has been to promise a brave new world of magic technological solutions to an ailing economy and divided society. Most of these solutions have turned out to be overstated at best, or an outright lie at worst.
We've internalised all the dystopian rhetoric and compounded it with the disappointment of false solutions, while these charlatans have siphoned off tonnes of VC money and sailed off into the sunset (or into federal prison.)