People are exhausted because they are already worrying but they’re avoiding the issue. Politics affects their lives every day, their inaction makes their lives worse every day, but they’ve been taught to only think about it in ways that cost a lot of effort without helping, while demonizing all the ways that do help.

Because you can benefit from engaging with politics immediately. Organize with your neighbors to share the tools you only use incidentally, like heavy-duty work trucks and power saws, through a library system. Estimate how often y’all are going to need them and keep that many in stock, then sell the rest and distribute the money.

Congratulations, you just did an anarchocommunism and made your community a million dollars with a couple dozen hours of labor. All that’s stopping this from happening is people’s willingness to engage with politics, meaning they are stuck thinking of themselves as incidentally indebted independent individuals. That and their willingness to turn down thousands of dollars in cold hard cash rather than consider the possibility communism is better than capitalism.