The you will own nothing and be happy is about continuing liberalism post peak resources. The world can't sustain more cars yet liberals want billions more people and believe happiness is to consume more and more. Their solution is that cars can be used more efficiently if there are robot taxis. Aka you won't own the car since there isn't enough resources to give billions of people their own car and you will be happy since you get to drive a lot. Capitalism strives towards making assets more liquid and commodifying things and this is their idea. Your lawn mower can become a rental service and make money thus continuing economic growth while the world produces fewer lawn mowers at the same time that more grass is mown.

We can't consume 3% more for ever so in order to grow the economy by 3% we need to use things 3% more efficiently. That means rental service which allow products to be in near constant use instead of stored in people's garages.

A global pandemic was a distaster for globalization, free trade and open borders. They want stability, they don't want to rock the boat.