> The second issue is people’s relationship with the state. The average response rate to a crucial population survey produced by the BLS has fallen from 88% to 69% in the past decade. Canadians are 15% less likely to respond to a labour-force survey than pre-covid. Over the past decade the response rate to Britain’s labour-force survey has gone from 48% to 20%.

I think this is under-discussed in this thread. I do think people like their states less and it's an important trend.