The longer it takes for the crash to occur, the worse things will be. Modern nation-states push people to use more-and-more resources in order to increase tax revenues for those nation-states.

But those resources are being used to make things that are nigh useless (e.g. yet another housing development that nobody can afford). As available resources are used up, the prices of everything rise. A crash must occur in order to make people re-evaluate what is worth making and what isn't worth making.

The longer it takes for the crash to occur, the fewer resource we will have.