Henry Ford famously said "It's lucky that the people do not understand the banking and monetary system, for if they did there would be a revolution by the morning."

Money is not wealth. Money are the tokens that allows society to create and distribute resources efficiently.
When money is printed and spent without value created attached to it as is our current system. The way that new money acquires value, is through taking a small amount of value from all the existing currency.
What happens when this occurs is wealth is transferred from those who hold currency (and all forward contracts in it), to those who are able to acquire that currency first (generally govt&connected entities) and those who are able to borrow money in that currency.
Wealth is transferred from creditors to debtors. The responsible, to the reckless.

This is how it becomes a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. As the poor generally are 'debtors' as in they are paid in currency which is a long term forward creditor.
This is why when the money derives it's value by decree(fiat) instead of by value, it creates the most perverse of incentives.

One cannot claim to want the best for society, or it's most vulnerable and advocate for the method that so ruthlessly robs them of their hard work.
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