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In Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri the colonies on Chiron use energy as currency. Which the modern world is already close to doing, if one considers petrodollars. The dollar as an exchange medium for petroleum. (How the US reacts to any country leaving the petrodollar and selling fossil fuels for...

Two points in response: 1) Many would say that fiat currency is itself at the root of the problem. Giving people the power to conjure funds out of thin air, what could go wrong? 2) Restricting that unnatural power to a small number of people may reduce the potential damage, but it doesn't...

I think you are missing the point.

This is a recent "Grrr Graphics" cartoon. https://grrrgraphics.com/the-monopoly-men Garrison has not much good to say about the American financial system Some of what he says is obviously true, some debatable, some of it off into conspiracy-theory land. But what is interesting to note, is...