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Literally Snowcrash, where the real-world is so shitty (IIRC the main character lives in a storage unit) that everyone spends all their time in the Metaverse (book calls it that too).
Ready Player One has the same basic scenario.
Guy starts out living between his Aunt's double wide mobile home and a cargo van that has had all the seats removed. He uses his head set & gloves to connect to the Oasis while in the Cargo van because he's safe while in there because the doors lock so one can assault or rob him.
Lotta dystopian works of fiction that we're just obliviously marching towards without a care in the world...
I think the bigger problems aren't that no one cares. The masses don't know like in Brave New World and the rest of us are either pushing for the coming crash or getting our smaller group/family unit ready to deal with it. Because we're tired of the masses who choose to remain placated.