You have a point but I think you're mistaken about who will be pushing for that particular use of a CBDC (punishing single men). The left wing will offer it to "traditionalists" as a way to "restore the family" or other such nonsense. The "traditionalists" will fall for it and then the left wing will do a bait and switch and then use the CBDC for whatever they want, including punishing the "traditionalists" if they don't conform.
(Scare quotes around "traditionalists" as I don't agree that they are actually support real traditional values, just bastardised versions based on feminist myths such as "patriarchy" and men being disposable as a natural rule)
I'm going to get downvoted hard but I'm still saying it.
Japanese PM Kishida : "Birth rate crisis is now or never"
EU birth rate is under replacement rate.
They've tried the carrot, now comes the stick.
Single men will be capped to [arbitrary amount of Euros] until they take a woman.
The More Feminine Way, where it's marry or eat the bugs.
You have a point but I think you're mistaken about who will be pushing for that particular use of a CBDC (punishing single men). The left wing will offer it to "traditionalists" as a way to "restore the family" or other such nonsense. The "traditionalists" will fall for it and then the left wing will do a bait and switch and then use the CBDC for whatever they want, including punishing the "traditionalists" if they don't conform.
(Scare quotes around "traditionalists" as I don't agree that they are actually support real traditional values, just bastardised versions based on feminist myths such as "patriarchy" and men being disposable as a natural rule)