Two points: the denarius wasn’t debased at the time Revelation was written.
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Revelation was written for a Roman audience that had just started to experience devaluation of their currency.
It is prophecy, not a description of contemporary situations. It was asking the reader to imagine what hyperinflation was going to be like, given their only experience with currency, which was a precious metal currency and not a fiat currency.
Notice it spoke of a day’s wage, not X number of denarii. As in, “you’ll have to work an entire day to pay for this food staple”, etc.
I’d appreciate less of an aggressive tone, as well. If you can’t calmly discuss the OP and wish to argue angrily about an issue tangentially related to the OP’s thesis, then you’ve got a problem I can’t address.
“Notice it spoke of a day’s wage, not X number of denarii. As in, “you’ll have to work an entire day to pay for this food staple”, etc.”
Read the text in the original Greek. It specifically states a choenix for a denarius. The term “day’s wages” is an English translation. Same with the term “scales” the original Greek is always translated “yoke”. Yoke is associated with submission or bondage. I think it is painting a picture of economic bondage associated with a great depression.