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Best post that I’ve read in a very long time.

Also among the most alarming posts that I have read in a long time.

Yup, those who pine for control over others, the more the merrier, are simply drooling about this. The only thing better (or at least the most complementary thing possible) would be to confiscate firearms from the populace. But it looks like they won’t have to - they’ll be able to starve and/or freeze us to death first. Hell, they may even go soft and offer a fair (digital) price for our guns & ammo, and even leave us alone for a little while if we sell it to them. But controlling the money is controlling the society - without any doubts whatsoever. As you pointed out, that’s exactly what a digital currency will hand to those who most like to exercise power.

Prison planet.

Thank you for saying so.

Sigh. I know of so many people who might read my post and say that it is overheated drama queen material.

I could almost see the conversation:

PERSON: Don't you think you are being a bit melodramatic?

ME: What do you think of all this? Do you think it won't happen?

PERSON: No! It saves money not printing currency, it is convenient, you don't have dirty physical currency, it is more orderly, you have better record-keeping, you have access to your money all the time...

ME: Wait! What do you mean, "access to your money all the time"?

PERSON: I mean if you don't get to an ATM or a bank, you can still buy things, it...

ME: What if someone, for some reason, decides you shouldn't have access to your money?

PERSON: Everything isn't a conspiracy! There would be laws in place to protect people and their money. It would be against the law to deny someone access to their money without due process.

Anyway, I can see this conversation continuing on in this fashion forever. There are some people who refuse to see that we as humans are invariably flawed, and that we have evil inherent in our nature that must be constantly battled with. It is who we are.

I feel like I would have to ask them if they had ever heard of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn or read his account of a heartless, lazy, bureaucratical, tyrannical government whose only national joy seemed to be plumbing ever deeper depths of injustice or faceless sadistic cruelty.

The fact that I can even conceive of this tyranny indicates to me it is inevitable. This is awful, because I just know that this is where they intend to take us. I feel it in my bones.