Not really concerned what companies do. Fiat is fine to use day to day as long as you understand it’s trash. Google coin…whatever. Steam credit from selling items on their marketplace…has its place.

Just store your actual value/wealth in btc. Gold has a place.

Everything else is just gated communities with surveillance all over it but they work fine for buying small stuff.

You are correct that most people have no idea how money works, where it comes from. How when you get a loan it’s just “new” debt is conjured out of thin air. How inflation steals 10% of the value every year (not that 2% scam jerome powell will trot out) etc etc.

I tell people the Matrix wasn’t a scifi movie. It was a documentary.