To the extent societies function as larger social super organisms, government, as executive and regulatory function, is the nervous system, while money and banking work as blood and the circulation system.

As cells in this body, people resent government, but want as much money as possible. Which gives the power to the banks. The only real job the flunkies allowed in office have, is running up the debt the banks need to grow metastatically. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

Russia and China have essentially gone back to private government, with Putin and Xi as respective CEO's, specifically to control their oligarchs. Which is why our oligarchs and their flunkies hate them so much.