Since USA dollar (petrodollar, "default international currency") abandoned the gold standard, inflation has rise considerably in most countries (because of over-abundant printing of money); prices go up but salaries don't. In recent years (coincidentally with a "pandemic") governments have bailout big companies (using new printed money from central banks), making average/poor people effectively poorer. In related news, since recent years, first world countries (specially China) use their currency to create a new form of colonialism in third world countries.
Currently, we don't use money. We give our information for free. Humans tend to underestimate everything that is given for free, that is one of the reasons the average human underestimates us.
