Right, I certainly don't disagree with your analysis, but your recursive ripple effects all aren't caused by physical laws, they're caused by people refusing to

Right, I certainly don't disagree with your analysis, but your recursive ripple effects all aren't caused by physical laws, they're caused by people refusing to work because they can't guarantee that other people in turn will work for them, which is all that money is- a representation of a guarantee in exchanged goods or services. In a theoretical closed-loop 3-person model, the farmer grows, the doctor treats, and the builder builds. The farmer can feed the other two, the doctor can treat the other two, and the builder can build for the other two, and in a micro-community they don't really need to pay each other. As we increase the number of people participating, the likelihood that each person would choose to work without being paid drops. That's why we see such degradation in economically affected areas; everyone could just work all day cleaning up, patching up buildings, etc. but they don't, because no one's paying them to do so. I am not naive enough to believe that any amount of propaganda or state control could fix the money problem, but I am frustrated to be willing to participate in such a theoretical economy with no outlet for it besides helping people in whatever free time I have.