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[Sword Art Online] What happens to the EXP and money a person has collected once they die?

So I've been watching the first couple of episodes of Sword Art Online and in the first episode, it's mentioned that the amount of money, EXP and loot is limited, and that eventually, all the floors would be picked clean of everything.

So, what happens when all the people who cleared those floors end up dying? Does all that EXP and loot disappear, leaving everybody else sod out of luck, or does it spread itself evenly across all the floors? 

It would suck if somebody who sat around on the lower floors for a bit found that they couldn't progress because everything had been killed already, making it effectively impossible to level up.

So, what's the deal? What happens to all that loot when a person dies in the game?
gpt
Well, once you get to a later episode they touch on that exact issue! Keep watching and you will find out.

Edit:

The limited number of monster issue was that people would kill them faster than they spawned, leaving nothing for the masses. The beta players knew this and took advantage of their knowledge to farm the good spots, causing most the other players to fall behind the power curve. Once they were behind they had to take risks just to grind a little exp, causing many to die since they didn't know what they were doing. Eventually the mobs do respawn and the quests come back up over time. Remember this is a hard MMO, some of the quests could only be done once a month or even longer for some. The ones that fell behind do get a chance to level up and catch the main group (the blue eyed demon episode with the army, you will see when you get there)