The substrate of cheap commodity foods illustrates this in its own way. The money that used to be spent on food and recirculated in the economy (normeconomics.org) is now simply extracted and circulates in Wall Street banks, supporting an exponentially and comically oversized debt-based financial services economic delusion. If any major food supplying country drops out, those debts and bets on perpetually increasing promises wither away in bankrupcy courts (note the 2022 scramble to keep feeding Africa when Ukraine grain was blocked).
Cleverness (techno solutions) will substitute for intelligence for a time, but the cleverness of past expansion still kills future people at some point because humans(just like economists) never prioritize anything but their Here and Now selfish domains. Common decency has been downsized.