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Re:EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet for v... by CryptoPunk on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @06:04AM (#27352426)
>>the only real hope of change is that a higher power takes more control.

A more durable solution would be to move. If sovereignty is ceded to that higher power, and that higher power subsequently becomes corrupt, your range of options significantly narrow.

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Re:EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet for v... by evanb on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @06:51AM (#27352727)
It'd be much easier to move if their ID and all of their documents were available to other governments in an easy-to-use compatible way. If only there were some sort of bloc-wide digital wallet...
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Re:EU set to unveil plans for bloc-wide digital wallet for v... by throwaway2048 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @08:21AM (#27353394)
Name a country where political leadership isn't intertwined tightly with banking and finance.

Somalia maybe? But i doubt it.

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