You just made a great point.
When I went to the States for grad school I met a lot of Latinos who had been livign there for at least 15 years and spoke little English. I could not believe it, but then I learned how the system itself facilitates people's alleged laziness.
If you go to a hospital or public office and have to option of having a translator/interpreter help you be understood, why bother? Then you have important documents and websites with bilingual information and community after community of Latinos who make you feel at home.
How many want to benefit from Steem, want it to go to the moon [but] don't even know how the basic technology operates and [more] importantly, how it influences and affects them? These are skill gaps too.
Most of us do not speak Steem or crypto and we have been here long enough to speak fluently. But we have grown accustomed to a certain routine and learning the voc and skills have gone down the list of priorities.
Something to reflect about.
I sometimes wonder how much of it is actually planned. In Australia the Aboriginals used to work and they started earning but, they weren't allowed to own anything. Instead, the government put them on reservations and offered them a little less income for doing nothing (social services) then - built pubs. It was very much planned.