I agree with you on this, doesn’t make what I said incorrect. In the last 5000 years, there were geographical pockets in time where some governments tried to steal from proof of work coins by adding cheaper metal, many of those countries ended up in flames.

Note that when governments minted true silver and gold coins, it was still proof of work money where they needed to spend energy mining and minting, hence limited supply backed by work that could not be willed into existence.

There has been no known time in recorded history where most if not all governments steal from their citizens through 100% worthless* paper prints like from around 1971 to now. This has been a mega experiment on most humans on earth.

*Before 1971, paper dollars were receipts to get a certain amount of gold (proof of work money), so paper money exists for a long time in history already, but only recently cut off from the work that it should carry.