Storyline
Some bizarre illness starts wiping out the one percent—billionaires drop first, then the next rung down, and suddenly everyone with money is sweating bullets. At first, regular folks are popping champagne, watching the rich vanish and thinking maybe this is karma’s big night out. But the party mood tanks fast. Turns out, when the mega-wealthy check out, so does the stability holding everything together. Stock markets nosedive, jobs evaporate, and all those massive companies? Yeah, they start crumbling. Nobody knows where the cutoff is—what amount of cash puts a target on your back? Panic spreads. People try to hide their wealth, but the disease keeps creeping down the ladder. The world’s suddenly flipped. The stuff that used to keep society running—money, influence, big business—just unravels, and chaos takes the wheel. The first world, so used to comfort and control, is now basically hanging by a thread, and no one’s really sure how or if it’ll get back to “normal” again.