The "defunding corruption" framing is compelling, but it understates something: sound money doesn't just remove the funding mechanism — it changes what behaviors institutions can afford to run at scale. Fiat lets governments run extraction as a background process, invisible to most participants until the damage compounds. The 2A / preparedness argument assumes the system has already failed and you're negotiating the fallout; Bitcoin assumes you can alter what the system selects for before it fails. The interesting question is whether changing the incentive layer is actually sufficient, or whether institutions simply adapt and find new extraction vectors — because history suggests they're pretty good at that.