Robert Heinlein makes good meat out of this misunderstanding of banking in his book 'Time Enough for Love'.
The nearly immortal protagonist often ends up being the banker in a small frontier towns. He routinely has to deal with mobs of people who attempt to "nationalize the bank" and are dumbfounded to discover that the bank does have all of the money in a safe.
The nearly immortal protagonist often ends up being the banker in a small frontier towns. He routinely has to deal with mobs of people who attempt to "nationalize the bank" and are dumbfounded to discover that the bank does have all of the money in a safe.