Practical Midrash:
Thinking about secondary “currency” used to stabilize internal value (money) flow between gov’t and citizens, such that tax is not a “gift” to government, but rather a loss-invoking investment (~renting stock/bonds) which [i.e. ~reimbursement/repayment/dividends] has been capped according to the relationship between concentrated value (e.g. gold) and fundamental value (e.g. primary agricultural produce). This cross-current of value as a form of taxation will allow effectively low-interest loans (i.e. distorted market in ways that are designed), [[whilst obviating (hopefully) the need for such large currency reserves?]] >- half silver/fire investment/flourishing
>> Rent exchange (i.e. equal value, ~, trans-stock-buy) between nations might also help with the math stuff, I don’t know economics, re. Currency differences.
Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_measurement and Bamidbar.
From this, it might be argued that the “nation-making” exercise occurs as recursive-Mishkan building penetrating the Zeitgeist, in addition to an economic “entry-point/contract” via fraternal utilitarian control of currency markets (but in a way different to traditional manipulations).
The beginning of Bamidbar thus suggests possibilities of “nationhood” being an ongoing occurrence and not singular events in the past. Cycles of cycles etc.
