It’s only paper.
Not just paper. The globalists want all money to be digital. That way they can track, control and confiscate at will. In order for gold or any store of value to survive as a medium of exchange, property rights must be conserved and tyrannies thwarted.
Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun; the corollary is that money can be controlled by the barrel of a gun. The police state is no different than a crime syndicate writ large.