It won’t end “us”, as in the human race (unless it’s the meteor). It will end “us”, the proletariat. There are way more than necessary to keep around to serve the billionaires, so to reduce the amount of money and resources needed to support a proper society, they do shit like this to thin the herd so they can accumulate even more “wealth”. That is all this is. A means to kill off a bunch of the hoipoloi without looking like they are.