What holds you in place?

I started questioning life long before the internet began. Slow learner with a vast concept of what life could and should be :) I failed more times than I can account for the times I "Won". Maybe this is why I see the world the way I see it.. Not sure. I don't see the world healing itself anymore. I see people being taught to turn a blind eye for a pay out that makes them better.. for awhile...Yet they are no better off than when they started. Perhaps this is survival... or feeding off others?