Destroying social norms left only money as a value and empowered outrage hackers

Evidence

So society chipped away at the entire idea of norms, throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The result was not human liberation but societies in which only money held value. Meanwhile, the erosion of norms left us defenseless against opportunists who learned to hack the system. The media dutifully amplified every calculated outrage, and norm breakers rose as our cultural leaders through sheer volume alone. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 854

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is ‘only money held value’ an overstatement — and could a counter-case argue that norms were replaced by a different norm structure rather than norms per se?