Have you done the cost:benefit analysis? Curious what makes you so confident that "crashing the economy" (you're aware of all the excess death and despair this would cause?) is the best move here.
The federal government doesn't "hoard" land around areas where people would want to purchase a first home. The vast majority of crown land is not around any major urban centers.
Canadian tech workers make way above median income levels.
Even with the prices of commodities falling, stock prices can still rise, and as long as this is higher than the deflationary rate, investing still beats hoarding.
Although it's the riskiest time for deer, I love centering my road trips around dusk, so that you get some daylight, some golden hour softness, a beautiful sunset, and some darkness. It feels like a complete experience that way, a miniature but whole life cycle.
Sensations are not just information. A number is information. There's something that it's like to experience a sensation. There's nothing that it's like to be a number.
I was never really convinced of the counter argument "the combination of the man plus the rules understand chinese, not either individually". To understand something is to have a conscious experience of the feeling of understanding. I'm sure most people would agree no conscious experience of understanding would emerge from the combination of man + rule set. Many people involved with computers like to discount qualia, but it is real and part of the thing we call consciousness.
Furthermore, on a more classical computational, non-dualist level, one needs to not only know the rule set but generally also has some meta knowledge of the rules themselves when one says they understand a thing. I can program but I can also explain why I'm writing the program I am as I'm doing it, how the different parts will interact to produce the whole, etc. I have some knowledge of my own inner black box, something the Chinese room setup lacks.
According to Chris Ryan (PhD and author of Sex at Dawn), hunter gatherers work around 20-25 hours per week, in line with the comments above of what they found was near ideal for happiness, productivity, and concentration.
There really isn't much hard science when it comes to things like human productivity standards, in the same way there's not too much hard science on ideal diet. Too many variables, highly individualized, and like all multi-objective optimization, highly context dependent.