I think this is generally true but with two significant complications: a) People running out of money is only the surface level problem. Money is an abstractio

I think this is generally true but with two significant complications: a) People running out of money is only the surface level problem. Money is an abstraction over value. We can and should mess with the abstraction, but we can't do anything about the underlying value in the economy going up in smoke. "Bullshit jobs" notwithstanding, the things people do at work all day do actually have a role in our collective standard of living. There is a reason we can do modern medicine while the third world can't, and we could lose it. b) Social life seems frivolous in the small, but in the large it is not. Years without human contact will seriously fuck you up. Not only are individuals in distress, but friendships, relationships, families, communities, and society itself are all in rapid decay. Screen time can only slow that down a little. Becoming a world of 7 billion hermits for as long as it takes carries real risks and real costs, too.