A few good years ago I wrote a post entitled Convenience killed the cat. It was covid, obedience, and everything in between related, and since the whole covid shit started a lot has changed in the world. Most of the changes are in perception and backdoor developments.
Cash is king, though... until it is no more. I don't know if I wrote the following in the same above-mentioned post or in another one but, once cash will be banned, and we might be close to such awful times, then we can say bye-bye to any fundamental freedom we once had.
China is way ahead of the whole world when it comes to digitization and that's not necessarily a good thing. We've seen how powerless the Chinese citizens are against the tyrannical system they live in and going cashless has made that even worse.
CBDCs are touted to be the next form of money and that's fucked up money. CBDC is programmable money that is not only digital but in total control of the central bankers(governments) that created it. I just stumbled upon a killer video today with some retarded gal trying out bottled water and soda selling machines in China where you can literally buy such products through the simple scan of your face.
That means that your looks and other sorts of biometrics are now representing your identities as Chinese, and that is somehow convenient because it can get you around town without the need of having any wallet at you, but couple all of this shit with CBDCs(programmable money) and social credit systems and you'll end up in a system hard to escape from.
If the system denies you, through software, access to certain products and freedoms, like for example the freedom to travel, you won't be able to get around that and circumvent it in any way. The dumb chick in that video was so thrilled that she can pay with her face for a damn bottle of water and that system does all the background work in settling the payment, but that's the face of a moron, of someone who doesn't get the bigger picture of this shit.
As George Carlin said, whenever we trade a bit of freedom for a bit of safety, that freedom is lost forever. I'm not excited about such a system that's controlled that much by software programs and algorithms because I know how jeopardized freedom is in such an environment. I'm an ardent advocate of cash and crypto and I really hope for my shitty country to delay the adoption of such technocracy as much as possible.
Go check that video I linked in the introduction, it's just one minute long, and tell me you would like to be part of such a society...
Thanks for your attention,
Adrian