The hard pill to swallow is that any successful economy requires flexibility, without which, they fracture and dissolve.

As value becomes locked and hoarded, the subsequent economic stagnation leads to cultural revolutions.

In Bitcoin this manifests as lightning networks and hard forks.

Essentially, the money can't keep up with people's needs; they exit for a system that does.

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Do the people exit, or the bankers?

Most revolutions have been fostered by fiat or debased money by those in charge.

Certainly flexibility is needed. But hard money - it seems - limits what governments can do without the consent of the people (through money), which I think is a good thing