You missed the part where these people have to pay transaction fees to exchange currency.
...where "transaction fees" could include imprisonment
The bureaucratic elite didn't gain their ability to inflationary rob by being nice... They won't take too kindly to these backwoods troublemakers shattering the illusion they've worked so hard on.
That's true but it took a long time to establish the inflationary system (a hundred years). Hopefully the reaction time will be slow again.