the shift from metal coins to paper in the last 400 years, stemming from the need for rich people to take their gold to donate to whatever jesus thing they were fluffing their public image with, the debasement problem got really really easy to do, and really hard to get people to see the hidden taxation that diminishes us all.

Bitcoin is precisely the answer to this, a question that has recurred first as dilution of gold and silver with cheap base metals, and now with the oversupply of certificates of debt.

Nation states are nothing more than an elaborate cloak for feudal oligarchs to appear to not in fact be feudal oligarchs. Sooner or later nobody is afraid to point out the emperor is naked.