[uoaei]

Your comment is funny because in essence, it's kind of true. Economy only works as long as people keep buying (heh) into the idea. I agree that the form of our economy can change substantially but human cooperation via barter and trade is a sound institution on this Earth, and this pandemic has shown that if people are unhappy with circumstances, they will simply pretend as if everything's fine.

Makes me imagine an "end to civilization" where there is a large contingent of folks pining to return to normalcy while the world literally burns.