The difficulty is in how exactly to change the narrative in a practical way. For a short period of time, when the two-breadwinner household first started, those households that could do that saw a massive increase in income. The sad reality, though, is that over time the general economy came to absorb that extra income so that now the "important" things have priced in that second income. "Important" things being housing, health care, utilities, transportation, and education. Those items have prices that increase rapidly but decline slowly; markedly different from commodities like food, clothing, and gasoline. Put another way: when demand for food / clothing / luxuries / gasoline drops, the price drops almost immediately. So when people have income-altering events, prices for food and such tend to change rapidly. Housing, education, and healthcare though - well those prices tend to be locked in.
Most of this I put on the finance system - if it was not so difficult or expensive to refinance a property, rents/mortgages could change price much faster in response to economic shocks, allowing people to stay in their homes. I think this is probably the lynchpin to it all, because if everyone in the society stops being afraid of losing their homes - typically the highest "fixed" expense in most people's budgets, then they would perhaps be more willing to have their salary / wage change in more realtime to deal with economic shocks than we are today.
You gain economic stability by building in margin, not by having a government willing to print money. This is not to say that printing money may not be necessary as a last resort, but it really should be a last resort.
Now, how to build in a margin - in hospital capacity, in housing, in education - that's what I want to see us do after we get through the next 12 months. And not just in the US, but worldwide... there is just no margin any more.
The trick will be how to build those margins in without making it too cost prohibitive - you don't want to charge people money for not having money (that's a huge source of many societal woes, but that's for a different thread...).