Yes I agree. I think this is largely the result of fiat. but not solely due to fiat as it began in earnest, at least in America, when we were still on the gold standard with the post-Reconstruction monopolies (Rockefeller, et al.).

But I also consider Socialism as a religion more than an economic paradigm, and so its encroachment is first spiritual. Free-market capitalism arose within a Christianised world. Once that world, as a result, became highly industrialized we saw the rise of competing spiritual frameworks like Socialism. The latter only makes sense in a world in which the economic epicenter of society is no longer the household but factories.

Ultimately fixing the money is important. Legal battles like this fluoride one are important. But free-market capitalism will only really return once we return as a people to the moral and spiritual roots it was born out of.