>it's not like people have any options.

That’s one way to frame it. An other one is, sometime people are stuck in a situation where all options that come to their mind have repulsive consequences.

As always some consequences are deemed more immediate, and other will seem remoter. And often the incentives can be quite at odd between expectations in the short/long terms.

>this sucks and I'm gonna build a better one in a weekend

Hey, this is me looking at the world this morning. Bear with me, the bright new harmonious world should be there on Monday. ;)