money certainly can be seen to have inherent value to individuals without relation to resources as long there are taxes that HAVE to be paid in said money. Still Sprax statement is verry true but under the right conditions these effects can be postponed quite long, like in the case of the USD. But the relation between money and resources/commodity's is a verry important one and it is how these ''elite's'' got there alledged control over the money supply (in europe atleast) and yes this certainly was a ''conspiracy''. It was however also a result of constant malfunctions in the old system of national socialist (in the monetary sence) states creating there own debt free money, not managing this proces well and thus debasing there currencys causing lots of resets (not to mention legio opurtunities for economic warfare). This caused the owners of mining operations, who where the bankers and multinationals of those days, to be reluctant to sell there resources to nations that they didnt trust to be solvable. As more nations got into trouble over time the mentality of said mining operations started getting like this:
''we arent going to horde our wealth in all sorts of currency's with changing falues over time, instead we shall horde our wealth in resources/land and only sell them if we need the currency we are selling it for on the short term.''
This leads to a situation where most of the mined resources are horded instead of used in the economy wich is absolutely detrimental to all economy's and all trade.
so something had to give, and it was national sovereignty that did, since govnerments had already grown dependant on issuing paper money, it was simply imposible for them to raise enough gold without ruining their economys. ''central fractional reserve banking with a fiat currency'' came to be all around the world. It grants great benefits for international trade and thus growth. keeps the resources (commodities) and land in the game while/by granting a RELATIVE save haven in paper money that can still effectively use the benefits of paper money.
The banking elite holding the people hostage with their solvability and the people holding the banking elite hostage by being able (or having been able!!) to seize the bankers property's by revolt against them
And its not going the right way for us people...
As long as people are unaware we dont have mutch leverage against these elites (unless some ''freak'' manages to kill them)
the more centralised and interdependent we get the more leverage they have against us. (unless we manage to turn that against them)
The rest of the conspiricy theorys around it are in my oppinion mostly noncence and superstition by all fringe elements in society attempting their respective subversion, displaying their ignorance or even just cashing in. I know this first hand.
These banking elite familys have had people that displayed all sorts of ideas and intentions next to making money, this might be by design or not, it does make it hard to know there intentions.
They verry well might be ''masters'' of infiltrating, subverting, controling without being seen, manipulating, culture building and all sorts of black strategic operations. They verry well might have all sorts of evil/dangerous/enlightend plans for the world. They verry well might have all sorts of connections to groups with malicious intend. You can research it for years but you'll never know for sure.
Just dont expect them to be friends with national sovereignty. Its simply not in their interest AT ALL.
All this came to be because innitially to many necessary commodities came into the hands of to few, who then conspired against the many forcing a system on them, that was stable and effecient but not neceseraly the most. But certainly wasnt the most just (especially if you look at how these few gained all those commoditys prior to all this)
