Its not all about the monetary system but about the quality and strategic intelligence and sense of purpose of your government.
Of course it's all about the monetary system. As long as there exists a money printer, someone with access is going to keep pushing the print-money button until, first gradually and then suddenly, it becomes worthless for everyone else.
See this is why the Japanese are smarter than you. You apparently can't look at a system objectively from an engineering perspective. You have to filter every idea through the Opium Wars no matter how irrelevant it is to the problem at hand.
Of course it's all about the monetary system. As long as there exists a money printer, someone with access is going to keep pushing the print-money button until, first gradually and then suddenly, it becomes worthless for everyone else.
See this is why the Japanese are smarter than you. You apparently can't look at a system objectively from an engineering perspective. You have to filter every idea through the Opium Wars no matter how irrelevant it is to the problem at hand.