The Big Guy didn't just pull up in his boat and tossed the cash. He first overthrew your mediums of exchange and all the cultural baggage and insisted you could only use the coin of the realm. The real mechanism of colonialism.
When we do it to other countries, it's called disaster capitalism and when we do it to the poor in our own countries, it's called predatory lending.
Government, as the executive and regulatory function of society, is analogous to the central nervous system, while money and banking are analogous to blood and the circulation system.
There was a time when government was private. It was called monarchy.
Now private banking is going through its own, "Let them eat cake." moment in history.
The wheels of time grind slowly, but legibly.