The drip drip drip of propaganda is speeding up. Tried and tested methods. Pick a group of people and slyly imply that it is because of "them" that your life isn't what you want. The broadest group is "the poor" who neatly sweep up swathes of different demographics in one nice shiny package, because until recently, discrimination due to sex, age, race or disability had been rightly taken off the table, as personal responsibility for accident of birth is difficult to master without considerable resources.
Now we are being encouraged to adopt an immature mentality beloved of our school days - punishing the many for the alleged actions of the few, with extra tools to manufacture statistical bogey men. We are encouraged to fight among ourselves at the bottom of the heap, while those at the top hoard wealth and literally reach for the stars. We become our own solution to the problems created by a capitalist system that rewards psychopathy, the obscenely wealthy just have to sit and wait, unaffected by it as their wealth buys them the privilege of isolation.
We begrudge the non working disabled on subsistence benefits having Netflix through careful budgetting, yet shrug off nepo babies swanning from Coachella to Burning Man on money that creates itself through "the markets".
The creep towards a Nazi mindset is happening. In my town we have a literal vigilante group, all nicely marketed, to fill the imagined gap left by inadequate policing. Their main interest is a handful of "immigrant hotels". They are promoting a surveillance app to assist their efforts. Our police and council are not happy. There are plenty of people applauding them and egging them on.
The "eye watering" benefits bill isn't the fault of recipients, it reflects the ever rising cost of living. It exists partly to keep the majority just comfortable enough to hang onto hope and hold off bloody revolution, which was part of the reason for the creation of the welfare state in the first place after the world wars. Its founders may well have had some empathy for disenfranchised soldiers returning home, but the lessons of the Russian Revolution were also in play.
In this thread quite a few solutions to economic problems have broadly been eugenics adjacent.
Trouble is, at some point those in favour may well fall into a goal post shift themselves, by bad luck alone, or simply by aging. Do we really think a society where euthanasia at the first hint of long term defect is going to be safe, secure and generate Utopia for all, or will we just revert to open master / slave dynamics, where the poor have no option other to serve the rich with little hope of improvement - or die.