@GeofCox@climatejustice.social There's a little bit of difference between bank-created money and government-created money. Banks use big wads of cash to warp the moneyspacetime, and pull money out of the future. Most governments don't need to. There's some exceptions, but most modern governments have access to higher-energy accelerators, so they warp the powerspace instead, which allows them to pull money directly out of the æther of the moneyspacetime. They can choose to pull money out of the future, like banks do, and oftentimes view this as the most convenient technique, but they don't have to. Inconveniently for them, both of these methods dilute the money's primary purpose, which is to run out, by making it so that money will take more time to run out. In order to make sure that money runs out fast enough, the two most preferred mechanisms are the orderly one — taxes —, or the spontaneous one — inflation. The catch is, it turns out that under some systems of government, the people who have lots of money can use money to bribe the people who control the accelerators to apply both selectively to the people who don't have any money. Nowadays, the people who don't have any money could also pull this trick — although this has not always been the case —, except they don't have any money to use as the bribes.