Then the unemployed people on uninhabited farmland move back to their home cities with all this extra money and buy a house for a couple million, sending prices

Then the unemployed people on uninhabited farmland move back to their home cities with all this extra money and buy a house for a couple million, sending prices skyrocketing. This is literally what's been happening to the economy for the last decade. All the money that went into the economy from 2008 onwards ended up in the financial & tech sectors in NYC, Seattle & the Bay Area. As long as it stayed there, it only increased prices in NYC, Seattle & the Bay Area. Then remote work happened and these techie millionaires realized they could live anywhere. Or they just hit a threshold where they can retire. Suddenly those millions are ending up in places like Boise, Phoenix, Austin, Denver, Asheville, etc. and now we get inflation.