Otherwise this is what we’ll be stuck with everywhere all the time. There won’t be a choice anymore if you don’t exercise that right. We’re already far down this slippery slope.
Again, the trend is to sound smart by saying it's hopeless. We behave much differently than prior generations in many ways. Heck, look at the rise of neo-right wing politics, the manosphere, YOLO investing, etc. Look at smoking, recycling, etc. Look at people using social media, when cell phones weren't universal for their parents
It doesn't require politics.
Both sides are not the same. One side wants to criminalize protests, the other side actually respond to protests. So vote for the side that will listen to protests.
it is still impossible to speak about such things here without getting flagged, so all I'm going to say is that I and many other people still remember the events that happened between February 2020 and March 2023.
Not sure what you're referring to, but I remember that thing that happened in January 2020, when an insurrection happened. MANY people will never, ever forget that.
You don't need a law where there's profit incentives. Rewards programs track plenty.
On the plus side, once cash is de facto outlawed, the US Supreme Court will be forced to finally step in on the subject. The removal of cash will force banks to authorize bank cards and accounts, no matter who. A bit later after that, they will be forced to give access everyone access to payment terminals and gateways.
On the other hand, cash is a germ superhighway.
I live in India so we have UPI which has 0 fees online payment and the bank also takes literally 0 fees at all for most use-cases.
I guess I must be living in paradise in this department and yet I still prefer digital payments simply because they feel good
Its on the contrary here, our parents advocate us to keep cash around us in case some businesses don't accept UPI and we generally deny them
I have never seen a shop which only accepts UPI and not cash, like ever. I think cash is even written into the law that you will be legally charged if you don't accept cash.
There is this one case where some people don't accept half broken notes but banks do and they will give new ones for old tore notes and also one / two other case of my small city not accepting 10 rupees / 20 rupees coin but usually its on very rare occasion and they could still be legally charged if I wanted to for not accepting it but even its being accepted 99.9% here nowadays. Its just on rare occassion that happens and it doesn't hurt having some extra cash in hand anyways so it literally doesn't matter much
The main problem with blockchain projects is that they're not decentralized in the way that counts. You still have to be chosen by the powers-that-be. There's still only one path to success; just like the rest of the tech sector.
Good stuff, thanks guys!
In the UK, it's the duty of MI5 to ensure such corruption of state doesn't happen. See how well they protect British public:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/1gx4qoa/keir_star...
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-digital-id-scheme-to-...
Security services should start doing their job and restore our democracies.
I do think it raises some fair questions about the drive to certain forms of digital commerce and identification. Perhaps, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.... at least sometimes...
For the record, I've seen no convincing evidence for the existence of a divine presence of any sort and don't support most of the site's messaging. Sure, we could be on the edge of real apocalypse, but am very doubtful that, should that day come, it will be the Christian Apocalypse or the same prophesied from any other faith for that matter.
Bill Gates makes some interesting predictions that happen to tightly align with how he advises leaders, and invests.
Kind of the same thing, here.
Split the hairs.
I'm fully willing to believe that the rich are conspiring against us, but the whole "own nothing and be happy," is just another meme-level conspiracy theory. Believe it if you want, but there is NO PUBLIC PLAN BY THE WEF TO REMOVE PRIVATE OWNERSHIP. You can even read in their 2030 document that they explicitly endorse ownership of private property.
it is happening by momentum alone, now.
Food delivery is offering financing.
From the jump off point of what they said, and where we’re at, you can start to see how it doesn’t really matter if it’s listed as a top goal on the header of their website or not……………………
You will engage in some form of hair-splitting about what he was saying, or whether or not he actually speaks for the organization.
More than enough here if someone wanted to look.
So what exactly are you privy to here that the rest of us aren't.
lol.
See my other comments, you may realize that there's no conspiracy theory, or conspiring, even necessary.
their entire plan is predicated on there being no alternative, and these world domination plans make some noise but they do not prevail.
Unlike decentralized cryptocurrencies, this blockchain is not decentralized and participating requires creating a wallet and having it whitelisted by a centralized controlling entity.
Some form of identification, KYC/AML process has always been required to be an investor or non-trivial financial transactions.
The benefits of tokenization over the traditional approach are fractional ownership, faster settlements and transfers, 24/7 market, etc.
God I hate the word globalist
>The WEF, as we know, is the controversial group that tells us that we, among many other controversial things, will “own nothing and be happy” by 2030.
The WEF hosts many viewpoints and doesnt have any real power, obsessing over them is usually the province of the same people who obsess over black rock which is where I am betting this is going.
>BlackRock has massive amounts of control and leverage over thousands of companies across all sectors valued at $4.35 Trillion.
And there it is. BlackRock usually takes a very safe stake, 1-10% in a lot of companies. Their influence is usually incredibly overstated, usually by youtube grifters.
>Trump has had a good relationship with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.
Trump likes rich people, news at 11.
>tokenization is the new monetary financial system quietly transforming the world
Holy hell. Most tokenisation projects take something thats already roughly abstracted as a token, like shares, or home ownership, and shifts it to the blockchain. "OMG MY SHARES ARE BEING TRACKED IN A LEDGER" yeah always were.
>“It will be on one general ledger. Every investor, you and I, will have our own number, our own identification."
Every polity that I can think of already has investor tracking. ASX has CHESS. Trading and reputation systems are weak to sybil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
>Clearly, tokenization and digital ID are inseparable
Trading and Identification are inseparable. Digital trading and Digital ID are obviously the same.
>Digital ID is not just an app on a smartphone; that is the bait & switch. Digital ID is really about your personal credentials (KYC - Know Your Customer) tied to your internet and financial transactions.
Theres no bait and switch this has always been the case, and the app having KYC details is so extremely obvious that this article trying to twist it into extreme language is crazy. This is really "The elites want you to think the sky is blue" sort of shit.
>In effect, digital footprints are the new credit scores.
Credit agencies have wanted this data for a very long time. There might be abuses. Those can be resolved legislatively.
>Indeed, it is an unholy alliance: President Donald Trump yoking up with big-data harvesters such as Palantir, Oracle, and other big-tech companies to steal our private data and transactions, merged together with the likes of BlackRock, globalist institutions such as the UN, IMF, WEF, and the Federal Reserve and the BIS - Trump and Fink are working in lockstep together to build a digital prison state and a tokenized panopticon to usher in their “golden age,”
Read: Hi this is my first day on planet earth. Lots of these scary names are discussing things that frighten me, because I have never read a book or purchased shares in my life. Please hug me. Its impossible to steelman this raw fearmongering.
Of course, no scary article is complete without a bible quote
>Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Sorry but first up, the people who lap this shit up are largely idiots. I blame the US education system. If you have a problem with Credit scores, go do something about it politically. If you cease being american that will probably solve 99% of this.
I have seen black rock and others moderate their stake up and down in companies without it being even remotely newsworthy.
"BlackRock reduces stake in Sylvania Platinum to below 3%"
OMG Sylvania must be resisting the EVIL BIDEN DEI INITIATIVES!
>The institutional investors operate in lock-step
If the goal is making lots of money, probably they would have reasonably similar goals. But thats not what BlackRock gets accused of most commonly.
>you have to force behaviors
You mean this quote?
“Behaviors are going to have to change. This is one thing we’re asking companies. You have to force behaviors. At BlackRock we are forcing behaviors.”
I cant believe so many panties are knotted over a throwaway pick me inclusion quote.
Which Behaviors? Which Companies? Define Force?
Surely you cant suggest that this random linkedin article that dripped out of this idiots mouth is even remotely evidence?
>devil's advocate.
Its not really faustian advocacy to fail to understand the huge deal being made of largely nothing. I get that conservatives, especially american conservatives, are incredibly stupid and will bite down on the oldest, flimsiest whiff of bait. But to try and pretend theres anything to it at all is pure insanity.
I'm confused, what linkedin post? You mean something the CEO said in an off-the-cuff interview is equivalent to a random linkedin post?
But please explain to a noob like me how exactly those 401ks are enabling that, and what ESG have anything to do with mass surveillance?
At least communism must pretend to serve the common man.
There's a point where I'd rather live in a system which at least pretends to serve people... Then at least we'd get some half-assed semblance of fairness and the discrepancies would be a subject of conversation...
When you live in a system and adhere to its rules, it's nice to be getting something of approximately equal value in return.