I think you probably know well “to what end”.
It isn’t about “saving the planet”. And it isn’t about “improving our lives” by making things more reliable and efficient.
Tyrants fully understand that limiting the mobility of the population is a key to controlling the population.
Communist China used the COVID QR codes to do just that. When a large group of Chinese citizens were going to descend on the big cities in China to protest the evaporation of their life’s savings that they invested in the collapsing real estate market (the ONLY place they were “allowed” to invest) the ChiComs simply changed their QR code from green to red, meaning they couldn’t leave their domicile legally.
They knew who all the people were due to their all-seeing surveillance of their citizenry, had them all flagged, and with a flip of a switch, they couldn’t buy food, they couldn’t get on a train, they couldn’t buy gas for their cars, they couldn’t stay at a hotel.
All with the flip of a switch.
Now, just imagine what they could do if all cars were EV cars. With the flip of a switch, if they saw a subset of people planned a march on Washington DC to protest, say, a stolen election, they could simply stop them with a flip of the switch from driving.
And if we have a digital currency, with a flip of the switch, they couldn’t buy food, they couldn’t get on a train, couldn’t buy a plane ticket, couldn’t get a taxi from the airport, they couldn’t drive their cars, they couldn’t stay at a hotel.
The is the end they strive for.
“The is the end they strive for.”
And then what? I believe the ability to do everything you noted is the means to achieving whatever they want to achieve after they have that ability.
Well said.