Interesting and useful post, thank you.
In the interest of understanding money, I think it would be useful to add the every enlightening fact that most money (97%) is created as debt by private banks when loans are taken out.
They just tap their keyboard and the 'money' appears and then they 'loan' it to us and/or our governments plus interest (yeeowch!)... hard to get your head around this when first one hears it ... but its true.
This subject is so critical to our future freedom and security as it gives banks huge and undemocratic power over our society.
More info on that here ... Positive Money (I'm not affiliated with this UK campaign group btw)
This for me is one of the things that makes the whole crypto-currency thing so appealing ... central profit-based control is reduced/eliminated.
Love and Peace.
RE: People don't understand money. We really should. We really should try to explain it super simply.