Fiatmoney is the biggest scamcurrency ever. "Somebody" said: "Give me control of a nation's money
and I care not who makes the laws."
OP you re right. We are enslaved by it. Our economy, society and politic is designed to make the avg. joe always to strive for more and more (money)... for a handfull of people money is just a means to an end.. just digital(virtual) numbers.. Something non-existent in "reality"... But its too late now to change it... We can have interesting discussions and brainwaves, and the so called "aha-effect".. many of us might check whats happening behind the curtains.. But we won't ever be able to change anything... They control to much now. FED, EZB, the house of sauds, and the other mighty six.... They knew how to make it... sad truth. They placed the foundation stone to the world we are living in today... we are all just small gear wheels in a complex system. And they ARE the system......
Things are not this bleak (or at least I hope!) There are multiple ways this system can break down. The system is inherently unstable, due to the incentives for the elites to maximize the issue of money and debt.
When it does break down, like a poker player in a large pot holding cards not good enough for the pot, the authorities can choose to bet big and hope others will fold, or fold. Betting means eventually using political repression to supplement the financial repression, and has its problems in established democracies. Folding means, probably, pegging currency to gold at a very high price (since gold is what central banks have.) They would have suffered humiliation but they would at least keep their power and get their stability back.
Another potential problem of betting is that the world is getting more multi-polar compared to the Anglo-American centuries. Will the rising powers continue to submit to the old system? Henry Kissinger is supposed to have just written a "pessimistic" book on this topic.