Worth the read just for the context around "A much larger problem with RFID than its satanic origins remains the cost of tags" alone.

I remember ads from IBM about 20 years ago where a guy walks out of a store with several items looking all shopliftery but cuts to an IBM-logo'd terminal where magic EAS tags have charged his credit card automatically.

Edit: https://youtu.be/wzFhBGKU6HA