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So I don’t often hear leftists talk about the fact that money no longer really exists (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Hohsia@hexbear.net to c/doomer@hexbear.net

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Or they do but I feel like the gravity of the statement alone never really registers

Was recently reading a book written a long ass time ago by some Brit where he talked about how a lot of the value in currency (coins and paper of the time) came from the fact that they were all tangible

And now wealth/money is completely digital. Of course the fed still prints shit, but with the amount of people who use Apple Pay/venmo to exchange “money” from person to person?

Actually, does anyone know what I’m trying to say rn? Is money just a Trojan horse?

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[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Non-cash currency is a project to exclude non-consumers from the economy and to surveil everyone else. Every good or service that requires a credit card or only does online payments is a good or service that is denied to people that can't afford the cost of entry into the non-cash economy. Every digital payment is a non-repudiable contract with your name on it that'll be a tack on some electronic conspiracy board cooked up by an LLM.

[–] scarcity_of_the_self@hexbear.net 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Very funny to see someone posting libertarian paranoia about CBDCs on a Leftist Idealism Forum. Wall Street as it turns out dislikes extant proposals for CBDCs because of how they would affect financial markets. Not surprising though everyone goes full More Perfect Union (actual patsocs), Chris Hedges, George Orwell idealism here at the drop of a hat

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 1 points 6 hours ago

First, it's /c/doomer, which is definitionally idealism. There is no serious analysis, only vibes.

Second, it's an uncharitable read to not infer the implied "under capitalism". If you can find me a central bank in empire that is not an organ of the surveillance state, I'll be very pleased to adjust my position on some things. Or are you living in a world where the Fed is actually going to do something like DCEP?