Systematics: The Systems Bible by John Gall (Third Edition) is a must-read for those who want to live in this silicone 21st century.

The writer reframes our day-to-day lives into systems - mechanical, electrical, and bureaucratic: all of them follow axioms of systematics.

I'll give you an example for today's digital currencies or in the book he calls 'token system':

An even more challenging example is the TOKEN SYSTEM, with which mankind has been having trouble ever since the Phoenicians invented it. K. Marx was perhaps the first to point out its defect as a System, thereby qualifying himself as a pioneer Systems-thinker.

Now the Token System itself had evolved as a solution for the problems connected with the earlier Systems of Barter. It was designed specifically to alleviate the inconvenience of trying to carry around a loose change in the form of live animals and of trying to decide how many clay pots are equal to one heifer. But the Tokens System soon revealed problems of its own, intrinsic to the nature of the new Systems and not to be eliminated by superficial remedies. Collecting Tokens began to assume the proportions of a craze. People now struggle, not for cattle or crops, but for Tokens. And aptitude for collecting the Tokens was found to correlate poorly with farming ability, or with anything else, for that matter. The Token System began to encroach, to Expand to Fill the Known Universe. And as it grew, it Acted Up, Kicked Back, and Began to Fail in strange and unexpected ways, The Modern Age had begun.

The capital system did not evolve from the bartering system as classical economists argue, but instead, thanks to the advances in anthropology it is speculated that trading with money naturally developed as a medium when exchanging with other tribes, communities, and circles that were outside of ones circle of trust. Read 'Debt: The First 5000 Years' by David Graeber for further research.

This is a compact, informative little book, and I came out of it thinking of all the systems I'm currently tied to: passports, banks, voting, etc. I also reflect on all the systems that the crypto world is building with many dreaming of a fair and just society systematized by WiFi-enabled toasters.