"People die for metal" - these words are as old as the world. But they are relevant now and I do not see a tendency for the situation to change in the opposite direction.

The great global crisis of the financial system threatens the complete bankruptcy of the system itself. And there are fundamentally only two ways out. Either the system dies and a new one is born, or the world itself in which this system functions dies.
The first option does not suit those who support this system and receive super profits from it.
There remains another option, which also has two options: a global natural disaster or chaos of social institutions.
The global disaster does not really suit the puppeteers. It remains to sow chaos with the help of wars, the creation of pandemics, the use of climate weapons, the destruction of the institution of the family... the list of impacts can be continued for quite a long time. But for a simple person who hopes for personal happiness, it is not so important for what reason he will lose it.
I dare to assume that the number of hot spots on earth may only increase in the near future. The system is not ready to die by itself...