We are going to avoid doing the hard things until the hard things are forced upon us. There's too much profit in keeping things status quo, so any attempt to make the world a better place is met with the unified forces of unfettered capitalism.

Not just things that are hard, but anything that doesn't have an immediate payoff. If it's something we need to do now, but won't see results for another 5 years, you may as well forget about it.

Even worse, we're so adverse that someone in the middle of circumventing said challenges, when asked why they don't go through proper methods, only has to say, "doing this the right way is difficult, so I just have to be corrupt in general." Then we all just shrug and tell each other, "any other way would be difficult, so I guess we need corruption to navigate the system they built for the purpose of making things difficult for us." And then we reject anyone who says they wanna try doing things the right way because the leaders we hate continued to bolster the system we hate because we're not even willing to learn why things are difficult.