I love history. Good read. Sorry for spammy initial response. Please continue reading:

I listened to a podcast recently that talks about the origins of money in a tangent off of the main subject - which is supposed (?) to be aversion therapy and it’s implementation as a blockchain currency / tokenized reward system:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-your-work-creative-productivity-solopreneur-self/id1067860103?mt=2&i=1000406435738

It also mentions a book that explains how the federal reserve was created:

https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserve/dp/0912986212

ps trivial thinking: It took me about 19 seconds (or milliseconds) into reading your post to jog my memory of where I -coincidentally- recently read (or listened to) something that seemed like dejavú of the beginning part of your post.