It’s not just that a loaf of bread costs $3 billion... I’d buy a baguette instead. It’s that EVERYBODY in society has $Trillions of dollars to spend, and very little to spend it on.
Rudyard Kipling, nearly a century ago:
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."