Not the person you're responding to. But I concur. How will one separate money from state and then protect one's state-separated money without themselves becoming a "state" of sorts, that then is fused to their money? And then everyone becomes their own little island/state, that is fused to their money, and then you forge alliances and become allied island-states, and so on and so forth, until you become a nation of sorts?

Like cmon now. Isn't that the inevitable progression? And if so, doesn't that mean these folks who insist upon separating state from money just want to become the ruling class?

I dunno. That's just how it always comes across to me.