As societies function as super organisms, government develops as the nervous system, while money and banking mirror blood and the circulation system.

While the last 3000 years, of going from mostly tribal cultures, to nation states of millions and billions of people might seem like a long time, from an evolutionary perspective, it's an eye blink.

We have evolved enough to understand the function of government is the health of the entire social organism, not just the accumulation of power by those at the center, making it a public utility, but have not yet reached the point of understanding the same principle applies to banking.

As these linear, goal oriented creatures in this cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality, people see money as signal to save and store, while markets need it to circulate.

Consequently Econ 101 refers to it as both medium of exchange and store of value.

These are not synonymous.

Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Try mixing them up and see how long you live.

Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. If we treated roads like we treat money, everything would be paved over, but we would still be fighting over the lots.

As a medium, you own money like you own the section of road you are on, or the air and water flowing through your body.

As a medium, it functions as a social contract, enabling economic circulation, but we treat it as a commodity to mine from the economy. Requiring ever more to be added.

As a contract, storing the asset side of the ledger requires a debt on the other side.

Which requires generating ever more debt within the economy.

For example, the one job the flunkies allowed in DC seem to be really, really good at, is finding ways to run up the debt. It would seem the secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

Not to mention all the debt the young have to accumulate, just to be part of society. Rather than having their lives invested in, as the future of society.

Those politicians are like the British monarchy. Puppet shows to keep the rubes entertained.

As the banks are having their, "Let them eat cake." moment.