Earlier quoted context omitted.
> if you removed the ability for governments to arbitrarily print money, The money is the governments. You can't remove that power - they're the ones with the power over the money, by definition. If someone else does, they essentially become the government. That money has value because they print it, and enforce controls over it. You're just holding some of it for a while. How you are expressing what you want is mean…
I agree that it's not phrased well. What are you going to do, revoke the ability to issue money... by fiat? But the goal is a good one. Make the government afraid that if they abuse our trust, we'll turn our backs on their token and find ourselves a less problematic social contract to value.
Banks are the problem, not governments.
And frankly, once you make your own token, you're just a less trustworthy government.