Long ago a thriller was entitled the Tomorrow Files. Though not billed as Science Fiction as I recall from 50 years ago it was an attempt to mainstream some of the ideas. Doubtless because I am as destitute now as I was then thanks to first each job paying me well going out of business and being over 50 when they did so and the last one 6 months before Covid lock ups when I was 63, making job searches absurd, the key concept stuck with me. The word for money was love.
Well out of deep love, quite unrequited, 20 state governments have introduced legislation for CBDC. And the Federal Government is playing around flirting before being ready to go all the way out of passionate love, an enthusiasm unusual in sober serious stoic politicians, for all in America: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/11/tech/us-digital-dollar-cbdc/index.html
We may suppose further the absolute insolvency of markets requiring kicking cans and haircuts and bailouts and international currency swaps and extended lines of credit hastens the urge to love people more by giving them what Christ could not after he whipped the money changers-the love that buys stuff. Stuff you need. Water say.
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