Just finished the Platform on Netflix. Makes for an interesting metaphor showing how the Cantillon Effect creates wasteful consumerism.

The food represents scarce resources. The levels represent one's proximity to the inflation, one's access to cheap credit.

The Cantillon Effect means those at the top grab as much as they can as fast as they can, saving nothing for the bottom dwellers. In this case, saving your money instead of spending it to consume scarce resources is the equivalent to leaving food on the table. If you're on a high floor with privileged access to cheap debt and you don't spend to consume scarce resources, somebody else will, and you will be left with less and less since consuming scarce resources in the real world moves you up to higher levels, making it easier and easier to access cheap credit.

Thankfully, Bitcoin fixes this.

Those infuriating scenes where people stomp across the food just because they can reminds me of this guy.