While I'm as pessimistic as anyone, I do work on the machinery of Man's foolish System of systems enough to see how vastly wasteful and useless most of it is (just allowing within the human systems themselves, not calculating our Total Uselessness Vortex for the time being). Something like 1% of the population(USA) produces all of the food (and ethanol for cars), so the other 99% can try to find 'meaning' in their lives on Amazon.
Competitive fanaticism would be well lost, and there's an awful lot of wiggle room between the car-based and war-based economies for finding decent lives. Nobody really seems to have the imagination for humans being useful to the needs of a place, though. It's always a discussion about what humans want (thanks to colonialism), what we use, and how many we are. There isn't an intentional path from consumptionism to generosity inside a system that was built only for consumption.
I think it could be done, but I don't think it will be even considered until after collapsing first. The cooperative connecting that does happen may mitigate some pain, but anything of value is going to be a beacon for the zombie sports teams, and they won't have referees. It's just going to be the 'business' of death to them.