The masses are too comfortable slopping away at the trough. Nature is an unforgiving god, and still finds a way to work its laws even in a technologically advanced society such as ours. One of those laws being natural selection. This means that only those who can recognize patterns and see what terrible things await in the future and prepare will survive. The ones who willfully ignore it and indulge in hedonism and only care for the present will be killed off.