Indeed, yay, thanks for posting. I've been doing a systems analysis of this including the inextricable link with energy, and where it comes from, and came to the conclusion a year or two ago (After studying it for about three years since 2017 using all the tools and techniques available to me as a long practicing systems Engineer).
Lnking energy use, enforcible scarcity of any kind requires that our energy comes from sources which are scarce, and ideally require work per Joule to obtain, and every Joule comes from a source which depletes from a finite stock, Joule by Joule.
But the problem they have now, the folk who would aspire to be in control of, and thus benefiting the most from this unsustainable energy Ponzi, is that we are coming to the practical (Survivable) end of it now as a species.
Hence the reason why so many in Medium are writing as if it is the end of the world, they / we believe this in our heads, if we can't see any other way.
But there is another way, and that is to use the unlimited energy of the sun. We have the technology to do that but the doomsayers and died in the wool capitalists decry this as lies, or false claims.
It is perfectly doable, but banks and money issuers as they currently stand are going to have to accept their part in things has probably come to an end.
What needs to happen now, is for money to be issued representing the product created and work done by solar power.
It can't continue to be issued as debt, because debt translates only to the energy deficit with out planet, it can never represent energy we put into our planet by workig in the same way as plants, receiving all our energy from the sun, and working that into Earth, continuosly converting solar energy to valuable product which is added to Earth.
That is the opposite of working always with extracted energy, which results always in materials, life, or other forms of finite energy being subtracted from Earth, and from humanity.
The damage done reverses, when we use the energy of the sun to do all things.
We could make our switch to 100%+ solar energy tomorrow by switching to issue of significant free "Kardashev Money" tomorrow, if they made the decision to do so.
For an indication of the amounts of funds needing to be issued, remember when we saw the beneficial effects previously, when the US was issuing around 4Tn per month, which equated to more than 10K dollars per person, per month for everyone in the US. That was when oil prices went negative and a whole stack of other beneficial effects happened.
It could be switched back on again tomorrow, and just left on.
The system after that goes from looking like an engine with no fuel in the pipes, to one finally running, hydrogen fuel flowing in all pipes, or like a plant, that just sprouted its first leaves, nutrients (Money!) finally flowing within the plant, channeling energy to Earth, whilst empowering itself to grow to its full beneficial adult capability of adding maximum wealth to Earth, from the energy of the sun.
Until they do that, the value will continue to drop out of money, issued only as debt, because it is not reflecting actual solar energy being put to use, necessarily scaling up anyhow, and the product from that as yet unmonetised, but still accumulating all the same, manifesting as money no longer having value, because in the end it is the energy put to use which is the thing of value, not the money.
