Have you read the books? Asimov and Frank Herbert are probably to sci-fi what Tolkien is to fantasy.

I just watched the first one, considering if spending time on the second one is worth it for me.

So like, imagine water is bitcoin - There's a fixed supply of water on Arrakis - The Harkonnens are wasteful (very fiat) - The Fremen are thrifty (check out those Stillsuits!) There's a whole thing in the book about how the Fremen are saving all the water (decaliters upon decaliters) to eventually...

Unfortunately lots of context is missing without having read the books already