At some point in the future there will need to be some litmus test between order and corruption. We won't be able to draw a line between good and evil. People on a "good side" will always do evil things. People on the "evil side," will suddenly act on redemption.

But a good bottleneck decision maker will be to ask how they are paid.

If the service comes from fiat currency it's guaranteed corrupt. Police, nurses, lawyers, journalists - if they take fiat currency with no alternative, they are bot to be trusted. Not because this fact is foolproof, but because a simple streamline is needed somewhere.

It should motivate others to abandon the fiat system and you know that they are paid by the institution that set up this insanity in the first place.

I can expect disagreement. No problem.

Yes.

If you hire a babysitter, and the babysitter refuses everything except paper cash or wired transaction, they are not asking for money. (Money is lawfully gold and silver coin). They could of course choose other metals: nickel, copper, they are still verifiable stable elements as an alternative.

It's not just that the fiat system propels corrupt payment systems, it's also that it induces a hypnotic suggestion. You acquiesce to a payment system that's irrational, you will therefore be willing to perform an irrational service - like a doctor that makes you sick, a journalist that lies to you, a farmer that starves you, police that endanger you, firefighters that burn down your city ... you get the idea

The problem is not the fiat system in itself.

The problem is the creation of money without destruction of money as a balancing mechanism. The lack of this mechanism results in inflation, which results in money devalutation (because of the law of supply and demand).

With gold and other precious metals, we have a limited supply. That limitation is what keeps the value of money in balance. There will even be deflation when the supply is stagnant and the population is growing. But this will change when humans get the possibility of interstellar space travel – we will then find precious metals everywhere.

The best money system for a spacefaring civilization is fiat money with a regulated money destruction. And no, fiat doesn't mean that money is only created through debt. A fiat money where the money creation is based on debt is a very bad idea, because people will start to confuse debt with the actual value of the money, which results in massive inflation (which is the situation we have today).

Here's how I would do it:

1. Create money through child allowance. A family is paid a fixed amount independent of how many children they have. This will result in an amount X per capita. For example, if there are 2.4 children per family on average, the child benefit divided by 2.4 is amount X.

2. Destroy money through the following mechanism:

a) People pay a voluntary tax. The only purpose of that tax is to keep the value of the money stable. The tax money is always used to pay the child allowance first.

b) The ideal money supply is the size of the population multiplied by X. The total money supply is the amount of money that has been created.

c) If the ideal money supply is higher than the total money supply, society needs more money. In that case, the money needed for child allowance is created and people don't have to pay the tax in the first place.

d) If the total money supply is higher than the ideal money supply, society has too much money (which devalues it). In that case, child allowance is paid only by the tax. Remaining tax money is destroyed in order to lower the total money supply.

This will result in a dynamic adjustment of the money supply based on the size of the population.

You can talk with your AI about this idea, it will calculate everything.