The following essay is from a Quora comment that I made in response to this honest question:
But I still think it is strange
what has happened to the USA. It used to be the country that got
together to solve any kind of problem or public need. You had the entire
country to have paved roads and everybody had cars way ahead of us even
so with electricity and telephones. You invented the Internet. But now
it looks like every community expects somebody else “big corporations”
to come and sort all problems out. What changed so that the US stopped
to be a “let us get together and solve this shit!”. I am by no means
complaining to you I just don't get it. It is like the public is afraid
of starting or wanting changes. - Kjell (2019)
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There are a lot of Americans who feel the same way, Kjell. It’s not wrong that you’re confused.