Not only does the money supply run out, but the INCENTIVE to exert any effort soon disappears as well, which compounds the problem of lack of negotiable currency by a great magnitude as compared to the system which has been destroyed.
Fiat currency, the distribution of tokens, only serves the rather small cadre of authoritarian figures who are the enforcers of this compulsory scheme of scarcity. Only the most criminal of the rest of the existing underclass ever has much chance at upward mobility. And they gain that by shooting or conniving their way into the palace.
Palace revolutions are not representative republics.
Yep. The workers in the soviet union used to say “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us”.