Modern wealth is potentially a double-edged sword. There's enough of it that "hikikomori" is a viable strategy to stay alive. Yet, "modern wealth" is also the

Modern wealth is potentially a double-edged sword. There's enough of it that "hikikomori" is a viable strategy to stay alive. Yet, "modern wealth" is also the reason many things previous generations took for granted such as housing are effectively unreachable for many people nowadays, plus inflation/cost of living. This makes "hikikomori" the rational strategy for some people. Enough money to scrape by and live online, but not enough to actually climb out of the hole.