People are stuck in a weird loop of complacency and learned helplessness, based on the idea, their "democracy" would see to it all problems get solved satisfactorily without them engaging at all.

That's never been true really, only the scale of problems wasn't that huge. Now, where the problems get the upper hand, people are confused how those stay and compound.

The idea of "boycott" is utterly defunct. Pretending, AI would never reach nor surpass humans anyway is patently absurd in contradicting the billions poured into it to achieve exactly that and the first already replaced by AI being those professions long thought to be the intellectual pinnacle of humanity.