Maybe what you need first is to correctly identify the problem.

If doesn't matter if you know how to clean a carbeurator if you take a good hard look and see you have a fuel injection system now.

Likewise, it shouldn't take a degree in anthropology to see our social system has morphed from pastoral to industrial. You might not know all the terms and buzzwords, fair enough. But you know we haven't always lived as we do now. You know there's First world nations and those that are not. You have a rough idea of what life is like in each (economically speaking, at least) You know that there are pockets where people still live as hunter/gatherers.

Come on. You'd really have to have been living under a rock to reach adulthood and not have some exposure or familiarity to these ideas. Otherwise, you're expecting us to believe that you've never watched a movie, read a book, gone to school, talked to an older person, seen an artifact out and about (where I grew up, stone arrowheads were all over the place. I found 3 as a child) gone to a museum, listened to the radio, a podcast, played with a toy, played a computer game, read a newspaper or magazine, or watched an old movie in your entire life. Then never ever once in all those instances had a single solitary further thought or curiosity or question about it. ????

You would have to have lived your life in a virtual coma to have not come across some something within the modern world that highlighights or draws attention to how our lives have radically changed. It's literally everywhere, across the vast majority of the globe.

From there, natural human curiosity sneaks in. You'll naturally start comparing and contrasting. You'll daydream. You'll wonder. You'll ponder. Nobody's job is so exciting that your attention does not wander from time to time. You shower/bathe don't you? Cook? Walk the dog? Etc.?

Sooner or later some ideas will cross your mind that the economics and work have changed but the proscribed ordering (roles) of society hasn't as well. Sooner or later, you're going to wonder if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

You're not working 24/7. Everyone has idle thoughts. These thoughts are going to sneak in during the down times. Naturally. You don't have to be an "intellectual". It might not be your go to. Everyone has different interests, after all. But across the entirety of you life? You've never wondered? Never had a single solitary thought about why things are so difficult and antagonistic? Why people donthe things they do. Why they rage and rail?

That's just not believeable.

So I don't think that's the problem so much as inertia and fear of standing alone against the group (lack of courage).

There's a reason for the latter. Mobs aren't inherently friendly; things can get nasty in a hurry.

The former is maybe inherent laziness, or programming. The whole, we evolved to think as little as possible argument. That argument has problems.

Maybe it's just how the basic physics of work affect a biological system. There needs to be energy flow and biological systems tend to prefer loops/cycles rather than linear dynamics that have a beginning and an end. In other words, you can't push past the inertia without knowing or believing someone or something is going to pick up that 'energy' and cycle it back around that in some way benefits you and restores the energy expenditure investment.