Part of the trick is to foist on us the economic priests that tell us of the fire and brimstone that will fall on us if governments ever use their currency issuing power for social improvements.
I'm not so sure. I can describe some of the paradoxes in our social systems in-depth, but it's often the poorest people saying we can't afford social improvements.
The USA has the global reserve currency and we have monetized our social welfare through advanced mechanisms of currency debasement. To say we aren’t printing currency to finance our lifestyle is absurd - we have been doing that through various mechanisms since WWI
