I go even further and say that most people are completely sold to the State "taking care" of their money. I'm afraid we're on the path to more and more control, my friend.

Yeah, governments have been able to incrementally increase their control over money since taking control of the gold to eventually monopolize money. And then when the centrally planned monetary system doesn't work, they blame it on whatever makes a good scapegoat at the moment to justify even more centrally planned control measures in whatever. Covid lockdowns were a good showcase, and some people even begged for it. This trend might continue for a while, but there's hope though, because bitcoin can't be stopped. A lot of damage has been done, unfortunately, and will be done before people start to understand these things.

What's mindblowing, is that centrally controlled monetary system is Marxist ideology working in plain sight: a centralized entity knows better than the people know themselves how to organize and economize their lives, thus they arbitrarily manipulate incentives. End result: everything goes to shit – energy markets get manipulated, food markets get manipulated etc. The implications are crazy wide. Understanding money properly really does feel like opening the matrix.