Does the system tell people the kind of things that you've just said? Nope. So while it's not necessarily a failure of the system, the system is complicit in continually trying to convince people that things haven't fundamentally changed. The system is willing to sell people this destructive notion because it really doesn't care about or need the excess humanity that has been made redundant by globalization and mechanization. The system's concern for these people generally runs so far as to the potential political threat they'll create in the future when they organize.