The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely …
"Fritz's first radical premise is that everyday life is already a disaster of sorts, one from which actual disaster liberates us... In other words, disaster offers temporary solutions to the alienations and isolations of everyday life."
— A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit (Page 107 - 108)
I think this is the allure of so much dystopian fiction today. People want the system to crumble because the system (capitalism) restricts their liberty and keeps us alienated.