Everybody saw it coming. Frankly I'm surprised it took this long.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

It's kind of like people who live at the base of a giant dam but cannot comprehend that it could ever fail.

Not everybody. Some very mentally ill individuals thought we’d all be living in some start-trek post scarcity TV show.