During the 2008 financial crisis, the global central banks all were aware of derivatives, leverage, and poor capitalization of banks. They consistently have claimed to fight inflation when globalization has capped much of the inflation, with the exception of institutions that are not market driven(government, education, healthcare, broadcast, control of currency - all under the state control or oligopoly power).
As central banks work in coordinated efforts to limit the ability of masses to accumulate wealth, they create a system that is inefficient, manipulated by a small centralized group, with intentions to control wealth accumulation.
This, more than any other factor in our global economic system and sub systems, is structurally responsible for global wealth disparity, concentration of wealth in the hands of few centralized figures, and controlled by non-elected officials which supersedes democracy, the people's voice and a just system.
I believe that central banking is the driving factor that has created wealth disparity, economic slavery, and abuse of the financial system for political and military control.
Central banking has evolved as a decisive monetary policy ('to police') tool ('only 3 inventions in human history: fire, wheel, cental banking'; an old joke) of the 'capitalist planned (planning) economy'. One alternative economic model would be free banking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_banking
https://mises.org/library/free-banking-theory-history-and-laissez-faire-model-0
Your arguments: '...to limit the ability of the masses to accumulate wealth' and '...controlled by non-elected officials' are, in my opinon, right statements. These political phenomena are closely connected to the 'systems convergence', which happenend during and after the cold war.
Article An Interview with János Kornai
https://www.newcoldwar.org/michael-hudson-on-the-new-world-order/
https://library.mises.org/sites/default/files/rae8_2_2_2.pdf
https://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2008/11/alan-greenspan-vs-ayn-rand-and-freedom/
Conference Paper The Hidden Physics of Human Progress and Poverty
Based on real evidence from actions taken by the federal reserve, it is hard to find examples where the board of governors acted on a fiduciary capacity for citizens. Rather, they appear to act in a capacity that implies that they are the powerful and elite, controlling the national currency, citizen access to funds, and they play with levers that benefit banks even if it harms citizens. It appears to be weaponized.
The social evolution of the politics of money (central banking policy) and its interplay with commerical banking (private fiat credit 'creation') can be best studied via economic history, e.g.
https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1110&context=his_fac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Warburg
The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street is practicallly the modern proto-type, e.g. Prussians learned a lot from 'her' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia).
I am in support of your argumentation; also the ECB is weaponized (weaponizing), with respect to the economic tendency of average income and wealth of citizens.
https://superposition.hu/en/blog/monetary-socialism-ideal-monetary-system-part-7
https://www.fff.org/2019/04/30/both-conservatives-and-liberals-love-monetary-socialism/
http://www.politicsofmoney.net/
http://www.opensecrets.org/
http://www.politicsofmoney.org/
Monetary systems evolution is definitely at crossroads.
We are in need of more ethical macro-prudence, in economic terms of citizen's dividends and bargaining.
Having worked in the Central Bank of my country and seen Monetary policy decision making up close, I can say that there is no such built in bias. But the rich may disproportionately benefit from policy measures as they are the major owners of financial wealth.
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