Your story certainly seems to have triggered a few folk who presumably are happy with the system, therefore completely under the spell of the propaganda..
I agree with your sentiments and instincts exactly. We can see this dystopian thing trying to close in, and there are those who wish to see it close because they think that will give them an even better world than they think they are in already but they are living in a dream whilst having their soul sucked out, just like in the Matrix.
Notice also they can change at any time to become invocations of Mr Smith, policemen of the system, droning on about following the rules of the system, (paying for things that we know shouldn't need to be paid for) and deserving everything we get for being sucked dry of money.
Seems to me we really are in something like the Matrix, and the blue pill is too much money whilst the red pill is not enough.
No worries, inflation will get them as sure as anyone else, because this time it is being driven by a much bigger force than they can imagine, mother nature, with mathematically positive energy for free, devaluing all money issued as debt (since money as debt can only represent mathematically negative energy, extracted from Earth).
For more info if you are interested, search for "The missing sign" in my profile... I hope it helps :)