From the title, I expected an article about the parasitic financial industry, which creates no wealth but slices a cut for themselves in moving it around. The

From the title, I expected an article about the parasitic financial industry, which creates no wealth but slices a cut for themselves in moving it around. The title is actually inaccurate, since money is not destroyed. Nobody is $20 poorer when a bill is shredded, since it is simply replaced.