10 countries are already using a Central Bank Digital Currency. More than 100 others are developing one
(www.atlanticcouncil.org)
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Who wants to bet in their rush to create a new money laundering route,governments cut corners and it leads to hackers just making this their bitch?
It certainly will, but its main purpose will be government control of spending. They mean this to replace cash entirely, and then they'll have control over who can access their money and what they can spend it on.
Buying your third soda of the week? Too much sugar, so the nanny state has decided you can't buy that. Oh you want a beer instead? We've determined your alcohol consumption is too high, so you can't have that either.
Why do you need all that gas? Planning a trip out of town? Well that's bad for the environment, so you can't have your gas.
You've already bought your 100 grams of red meat for the month, so it's plant based or bugs from now til the 30th.
Oh, you attended this protest against our digital currency policies? Well that makes you an undesirable, so no more money for you.
That's the future.
Don't forget "carbon credits" or whatever they might rename it to, in order to give the elites an out. They sure as hell aren't going to give up their private jets, but fuck the peasants if they want a vehicle that the government can't remotely hijack.
You see this is why can't have tiered citizenship even though it might be a solution to filter out all the drains and wasters from the voting pool.
Because governments keep trying to 1984 this shit than Starship troopers
Starship Troopers "Service guarantees citizenship" thing still makes more sense than universal suffrage. As is, it's just the parasites voting to drain the workers and tyranny of the majority. The problem is trying to figure out how the government can abuse it and how to prevent that too.
If I remember the book right (it's been a long time since I read it) this only formed after governments fell into chaos, the 'intellectuals' tried to rule but they were even worse so then the veterans of the military took over and basically said 'You're all shit at trying to provide order, we'll do it and only those that have been through the same shit as us can vote, everyone else just gets the same rights'
And it worked, that filter alone took out a majority if not all the timewasters. The only problem is that I think modern day governments are aware that if a military coup was bloodless, successful in providing security and rights of civilians and worked out economically, they're all fucked so have focused of subverting military leadership making the west a lot more vulnerable to OUTSIDE military threats...
Military was only one of the services possible. The book is set during war time though, so military is the one focused on.
The idea of the service is to set the requirements near the upper end of what someone was capable of to make everyone technically able to achieve citizenship, but most give up.
I think it's mentioned that a blind cripple might be able to get citizenship just by insisting hard enough if the government couldn't find something they were capable of.
Yeah I remember there was this old man in the boot camp in the book, wasn't best shape but was determined no matter what
Think he actually got through in the book when so many younger guys dropped out.
IIRC that was the main character's (John Rico's) dad.
The last thing governments want is for the people who care the most and depend on them the least to be the only ones who can vote.
Nigeria bans ATM cash withdrawals over $225 a week to force use of CBDC
Apparently people aren't falling in line and crypto alternatives are having a massive upswing in the country.
The site is using an Awful lot of of google in their third party stuff.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/817395052006342656/1051150620666626129/image.png
google.com, font.googleapis, googleoptimize, gstatic, googletagmanager...
Still, very nice find, but it could have been done without using and supporting evil woke google.
I normally prefer to archive unless it's a friendly news source, but their interactive map of countries using CBDCs has so many API-dependent features that it wouldn't show up on the archive.
Yeah, quite understandable. It's just sad that it will dissapear entirely because of that. Also, that it won't work for those who block various (woke, etc) third-party stuff.
What's the difference between these digital currencies and moving money digitally?
They will quickly ban cash and force you to use these.
One problem with cash is central bankers want negative interest rates to punish you for saving.
This will be only possible when they can seize your CBDC and cash isn’t available
Here's a good article about digital currencies: https://brettscott.substack.com/p/casino-chip-cashless-society
That is indeed a good article, thank you.
moneychangers getting uppity again