One of the worst realizations, is that the abandonment of a 200 nation global sound, natural, stellar rarity backed intrinsic monetary system, is truly a step away from the built in rarity ratio calculation devices of silver, gold, platinum, planted in the cursed soil from which we are doomed to toil after being cast out of paradise by the creator to earn our right to more power (we didn't), showing that we can properly wield it (we can't) responsibly (we won't).

That is, the evolution of hydrogen/helium early first generation Population 3 stars, supernova-ing (and the other things boomer stars do like collapse), into Population 2 which were formed of the remnants and corpses of cannibalized population 3 star guts, moving our complex heavy metals Lego parts conveyor belt assembly line right along to the best star, Population 1, and the Sun, ours, she is a b-e-a-u-t.

When we dig out a volume of gold from the ground, we can quantify the amount of fuel required to run the equipment, we can quantify the labor hours from a rigid, naturally existing measurement system. Observations and ratios of how long to search for the resources, odds of success to profit ratios, estimated rate of quantity existing versus how much we have ever mined, how much is used in manufacturing versus jewelry, versus currency.
All measurable. All quantifiable.

FIAT fractional reserve central banking is an attempt to cut to the front of the line and skip doing all of the hard work.
Forget mining the asteroids, we are not going to mine anything.
Place a Brick onto the money printer gas pedal, and pretend everything is fine while they take all the new "fake" unbacked paper and live luxuriously, while the rest of the peasants without a secret hand shake golden ticket pass get the shaft raw, no lube, without even the courtesy of a reach around.

I wish I never did this simple addition problem, but I cannot put the genie back into the bottle.
The spell is cast.