The Gutenberg Press, a symbol of knowledge liberation, initially broke the Church's monopoly on information by making books accessible to the masses. However, it's ironic that this tool of liberation later contributed to a different kind of control. With the advent of the printing press, central banks found it cheap to print money, leading to potential economic manipulations and centralized financial power.
The press, once a vehicle for spreading diverse ideas, inadvertently facilitated centralized control through currency production. The irony lies in how a tool that empowered people's access to information ultimately played a role in concentrating economic influence in the hands of central authorities.