>Cost of living crisis hits its stride
>Continues for another decade.
>Youth milestones for billions "on hold."
>No family formation, no household ownership, no roommateless apartments, no independent living, jobs cover staples and nothing else.
>Many continue out of hope of "Will get promoted" or literally winning the lottery.
>Economic Depression hits.
>Hundreds of millions across the world lose their employment.
>Suicide rate increases slightly.
>People see the trends, and hopelessness increases exponentially.
>Accelerates as people who held on only because others held on commit suicide.
>A literal death spiral emerges.
>One day someone snaps, and suggests a mass suicide day.
>Governments try vainly to stop it to prop labor supply up.
>You could never stop it.
>Hundreds of millions off themselves on a single day.
>...
>Wage rates go up, but mainly for the same reason they went up after the Black Death: there are so much fewer people.