I was at university when the GFC was starting. It was so weird, suddenly the boring part of the news on the markets, etc became the main talking point on TV and in newspapers.

I was clueless about these topics, had to learn what an IOU, bond, mortgage backed securities, etc were

It's feeling a lot like that right now. Normies will now be exposed to all kind of information that will be completely new to them. They'll be shocked when they start learning about how the system works. At least some of them