Dystopia purposefully emphasizes already existent feelings of inadequacy and emptiness to force the afflicted to attempt to make up for it with murder, money, drugs, sex, tech, and literally anything that can increase the amount of chemicals in the brain. It's a system that enforces and reinforces pain for the goal of increasing the usage of anything that will dull it, of course because those things almost always require some amount of money, and provides onlookers with some measure of entertainment/drama/news.
The world isn't seeing repeats of mass murderers and fascists over and over again because it's just that darn bad luck. The systems we have are designed to make them. It's basically equivalent to leaving a gun to an angry child and sending them off to school, and then saying "nobody understands why all these children are dead now, obviously the solution is more guns". The solution isn't in the guns or the lack of them. It's in the anger that results in the child from the parent and the world, because they're both fucking terrible. The child would not use the gun if they were not angry, the child wouldn't have the gun if not for the inattentive parent that wouldn't even have the gun if not for an unregulated global arms market feeding off of crime.
This is a defining characteristic of dystopia. It is why it feels so hopeless, so vapid, so exaggerated, so complicated. It has to be, because that is the only way to distract from the intrinsic problems that keep the "powerful" more "powerful" than everyone else. It's chaos for the sake of chaos because it perpetuates the system for the elite, which are unfortunately the worst people on the planet, another key (if not required) aspect of dystopia.
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