Harvard Economist Is Trying to Kill Cash

Re:Harvard Economist Is Trying to Kill Cash by ismail on Saturday September 10, 2016 @08:55AM (#12468973)

I remember back in the late 90's listened to a talk which I dismissed as conspiracy. The key points were

1. Moving people away from cash to credit so easier monitoring of society and transactions

2. Moving communications to the "information super highway" with constant listening in

Our grand kids will live in a vastly different society. I fear we may be heading to a reality covered in so many dystopian works of fiction.

The chilling effects of the constant surveillance we currently have.

This was previously posted on HN:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-07/why-you-should-be-p...

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Re:Harvard Economist Is Trying to Kill Cash by PavlovsCat on Saturday September 10, 2016 @09:30AM (#12469085)

Since the goal is total power, our grand kids will live in no society at all. They will be automatons, live in pain/in fear/in despair/not at all, or be Gestapo officers. But they'll be too regressed to even be able to hate their ancestors for their cowardice and hybris, so that's good.

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