Inflation is alive and well and growing in leaps and bounds! Yeah, over the last two or three generation we have turned into a people of greed. And yeah, there is a reaction over time of too much of a good thing and be bad and we create the conditions to be fearful. It is weird but perhaps that is it. We have produced this outcome on our own out of our own selfishness.
And this is the crux of it. Yes, we have been conditioned to a large part, but we are also conditioned through what we consume - which feeds back in on itself. If we aren't the ones to break the cycle, no one else has the incentive to.