You're asking this in a post Covid world? People went rushing around for all sorts of weird shit and obeyed every command because of a fake cold for three years and you wonder how they pitched "hey we're gonna need some of your money"

I can't speak for the whole planet but I know the story in the US, it was the aftermath of old fashioned slavery. Here's a post I posted about it a while ago nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqamkcvk5k8g730e2j6atadp6mxk7z4aaxc7cnwrlkclx79z4tzygqqsduja97jqp72mchc0chqutgv0k3zj473duqm9aq0n75rnux9h9gpgyt5yjf