My opinion is broader - we're in the midst of a global transition. Hunter gatherer -> Agricultural -> Industrial -> Post-Industrial (Where we roughly are now in the developed world).
The next clear stage is either global civilization heading up the Kardashev scale or post-apocalypse. I hope and act in the belief it will be the former.
Firstly technology has made changes in society, business and technology change for the good or bad, more rapidly. Everything is making adjustments, that more quickly, iteration happens at a pace that would have taken considerably longer.
Look at your local supermarket, today theres basically no competition, if one chain puts something up or down, the other almost instantly changes or adapts.
This is happening with everything. In the past there was more competition because one shop didnt know what the other aka its competition a few streets or across the country charged, so they actually tried to keep prices down. Today they know, this means they dont have to be safe and lower prices they can try and put them up.
This is exactly what we see from MacDonalds to the prices of oranges.
Everything is moving too fast.