Super interesting- one of the classes I took last spring was in the humanities realm. I focused on 'looking for signs of self-awareness in AI' by discussing first what made us 'human'. Whether art influences culture or vice versa is always the theme and I talked about how we measure 'intelligence' based upon our own human experiential metrics. How does anyone TRULY know that another is 'aware'? Money is most definitely an algorithm and the internet is the platform for spreading this 'meme' (theory of memetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics). Ideas as the actual catalyst for evolution is fascinating to me. It's interesting how we've used the word 'leverage' in terms of many things capital.

Leveraging Money
https://www.blueleaf.com/articles/how-leverage-works-in-investments/

Leveraging Human Capital
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00131610121969389

Military Application of Memetic Leveraging
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a507172.pdf

the list goes on and on...

Thanks for your awesome response- led me to some cool new thoughts about social implications of currency and inflationary concepts.