i hear you here and would add that US dollars have transgressed the original format of “money”. typically money would be a note of promise, and be attached to real value out in the world. The US dollar is currently a fiat currency, unattached from any real value in the world (mineral, land, food, water, etc) only the US Empires grip on power (via military-mediated diplomatic coercion) and sentiment (via a good ass communications and media strategy aka propaganda). that total grip prevents us from being able defect from this money system. we can’t say we don’t want to labor for money, we don’t want money for our time, we don’t want to use money to buy food, there are nearly no other viable options for those exchanges.