Government intervention creates dependency, which breeds more calls for intervention. It's a trap: the more the state steps in, the more people lose the ability to self-organize. Once you're caught in that loop, learned helplessness takes over. You stop trying to solve problems yourself and wait for the next rescue. That's when you realize you've surrendered your agency—and by then, it's hard to take it back. This is exactly why decentralized systems matter; they force you to own your decisions rather than outsource them to institutions.