Does everything have to be about money? This is "Hacker" News, not "Monetize Everything" News.
Of course, the site was made by a vc, so maybe it really is Monetize Everything News.
At some point, I wonder if our social and economic system becomes a close enough proxy to darwinistic survival of the fittest through capital ownership that a large enough portion of the population realize they would do better outside this construct rather than inside our societies and will begin to reject the system at large.
Right now we are able to provide stable food, housing, and ERs can't refuse people for medical care but stable housing is in the downturn and Healthcare costs that lead to bankruptcy conditions are on the rise. I feel like we're really testing how low many will go before they reject the system at hand and at what point is that number of people large enough to be critical to the existing system's stability.
At some point the effort for comfortable success may become so high people just abandon it entirely.
The Indian state of Kerala is the most advanced, well run, and successful region of the country. On development indexes it ranks with the poorer regions of the EU. It's also largely a communist state, but once again the communists are democrats.
We have voluntarily destroyed lots of economic growth and plunged millions into extreme poverty because of a virus that is not especially bad when compared to historical pandemics.