Escapism takes many forms. There's a reason movie viewership in the US was way higher in the 1930s, during the height of the great depression, than it was in t

Escapism takes many forms. There's a reason movie viewership in the US was way higher in the 1930s, during the height of the great depression, than it was in the post-war years (it was higher in the early 1940s likely due to WWII and news distribution) https://www.businessinsider.com/movie-attendance-over-the-years-2015-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/movie-attendance-over-the-ye... Many people will turn to nihilism given extreme financial conditions, and there's always money to made by selling dreams and dopamine to the despairing.