Reader with a Cause discussion

In Ready Player One, the OASIS is much like an escape. People spend time in this virtual world to avoid a polluted, impoverished reality. The effects of climate disruption can worsen existing conditions and inequalities, such as poverty, lack of affordable housing, education inequality, and gender inequality.

In the United States, lack of affordable housing is already a problem nationwide, so the stacks don’t seem too far-fetched. Around the world, some communities already resemble Ernest Cline's imagining of the stacks. What impact would it have if all communities looked like the stacks by the year 2044? How might this change further exacerbate existing inequalities?