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.
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...