I don’t know who needs to hear this or comprehend it still, but most if not all billionaires don’t care if the economy crashes. They have so much money and power they can be safe as a bug in a rug. They can then take advantage of a collapsed economy and suffering society to force even more workers into defacto slavery.
In the future America is plummeting towards, even skilled workers live in indentured servitude in company towns, completely dependent on employers for healthcare and education. There are no effective worker rights, and most companies are owned by a few monopoly mega corporations.
@hacks4pancakes industrial revolution second round in a climate change and ubiquituous megacorporate surveillance with fascist orientation. The associated social unrest could come like in the first round in the 1800s in Europe.