I loved this story for my first sight of the term "Goblin mode", which I identify with, far more than the Chinese "Lying flat", that I'd heard of before. Thanks for that :) I will add that to "Bullshit Jobs" (David Graeber), and Bullshit Industry" in my own reportoire of useful terms related to my usual subject in Medium; the energy problem underlying all things.
The solution is to align money with energy, given that there is only one source of energy; the sun, instead of with capital, as it currently is.
We could do this tomorrow if it was accepted that our financial debt is actually an energy deficit to our planet, representing the energy we've taken from it by de-creating what nature created using the energy of the sun. The only way to pay it back down is plug into the energy of the sun, because that is the only source that can power us without de-constructing what nature constructed.
With that known there is no reason why free money could not be issued to all people, from defence funding redirected towards implementing energy security, on the understanding all can be repaid indirectly, many times over, by money finally backed by the live Joules of energy coming from the sun, that we put to use.
I call that "Kardashev Money" .
It is the future, and with that, no-one will feel like lying flat, or going into Goblin mode again, as our efforts at last will be towards a good outcome, and we'll be appropriately rewarded for all our efforts in life, it seems to me.