The way i see it this is the way wall street behaved before the crash, people were seeing opportunities that were false promises and buying on them, and when that could not be supported anymore the market collapsed
THE BIG PROBLEM IS:
that now all the gold generated comes from mines, collectors and the league bonus
All the extra loot that came from raiding higher THs is gone, and thats a lot of loot that the current mines and collectors cant generate
as time passes its going to be really obvious, because there will be almost none with loot to grab.
Its like been a salesman that gets paid a fix salary plus his sales commission and starting this patch the boss says, you are no longer going to get a commission, you may ask the costumer to pay more money for it, but you'll get no commission only the extra you can squeeze out of the customer (thats silly in normal life its the other way around the customer normally tries to get that extra form the sale)
Think about it, this is at every level, for example
A TH 6 raiding an inactive level 8 could get a lot of extra gold, that in turn could help a TH7 get more loot when attacking that previous TH6 and so forth, that made the economy roll and stay afloat
lets put this in to every day economics
everyone likes to get a bonus when they buy something, if you buy a tv and you get 50% of the price paid in coupons to buy more things you are really happy, because more "money" went back to your pocket, and you spender it on a a bluray and sound system. thats part of the old system
On the new system
yo get to work more and earn more money by putting more time in to the game, but that money comes from what your neighbor owns, and if your neighbor gets sick of that he may stop making money and you get screwed theres no more money buy the tv. The TV is going to cost the same, but you won't have the extra for the bluray and the spun system
and to make matters worse before yo had an insurance that no matter if you got robbed, all that could get robbed from you was 200,000 now when you are saving for that BIG Smart TV (in this case a big upgrade) you get robbed a lot more, and if you don't stay really active, you end up with no tv at all



You are good with numbers and have a talent of showing people to see the numbers visually
Or refuse to.....

