This is the kind of sleep walking that’s about to walk humanity into the next dark ages.
My parents say a lot of stuff like this. They tend to gloss over the untold suffering, great depressions and world wars that took us to get here.
The planets resources were also not in risk of running out. As the world is min maxed by billionaires, it nice the lower classes are drained of all capital, they will soon move to fighting each other for resources. the future is looking pretty grim for even the most optimistic of scenarios