Agreed but right now we buy,sell,live,eat, breathe off of our bank debit cards. I guess the beast will be in the communism of the world players.
The problem is not the card per se, but that you have a system in which one can’t even buy food unless they offer allegiance to a particular government. That’s the part that matches up with this:
“He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.”—Revelation 13:16-17
The mark is real, it will come, and it will be a case where people willingly take it, knowing they are choosing to reject God. It won’t be a trick...for example, it won’t be the SSN or something similar.