A blazing asteroid hurtles across the sky, alarming three dinosaurs who stand immobile as devastation looms on their horizon. The tyrannosaurus, mouth agape, exclaims, “Oh shit! The economy!!” A Covid-19-era internet gem, this meme’s witticism strikes home as the pandemic’s death toll rises daily while world leaders wring their hands about shrinking GDPs. Clearly, our priorities are all wrong. If we were to cast our myopia in a more generous light, however, it might look like our fault is that we are hopeful creatures. We believe we will survive. The optimistic among us view existential crises as opportunities to not only right our wrongs but to improve our lives. I, for one, have found myself asking the question: how can we rebuild societies so that they are better than before? Are we at the crossroads between utopia and dystopia?