10 countries are already using a Central Bank Digital Currency. More than 100 others are developing one
(www.atlanticcouncil.org)
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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.