Sometimes it does low-key feel like it though. Things getting worse. Very little improvement. Things getting way more expensive while at the same time people are getting poorer.
The end result of this when people have decided they've had enough is probably not gonna be pretty. Might result in riots or wars or something else.
When people say "nothing ever happens", they're tend to be mostly NEETs or drug addicts leeching off their parents' paper money (which will be worth shit in no time; no one can stop what's coming).