Why is it so hard to wake people up from the fiat scam? Because — 
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Also seems as though the sunk cost fallacy applies to this in some way. People are so deeply invested into their way of thinking that to deviate now would feel to costly.
I truly do believe a lot of people like being dependent on the ideas of others and in some way fool themselves or turn a blind eye to the negatives.
Incredibly hard for people to see the situation from outside the incentives of the current system they are opperating in.