There is also some carrot and stick going on in UBI, that only the conspiracy folks, and Bitcoin people are talking about.
This article is actually by the Davos group (Bilderburg) , and as a controlling tool, it would be VERY effective at holding a population hostage.
You would have to have a new “biometric” ID, and a linked bank account, that could be “attached” to negative interest rates, bail ins, and/or frozen if an economic “crises” was declared.
Even more power to the Police State, they could attach your linked account for any reason they wanted, even claiming a civil forfeiture, and have a very powerful argument for why you should give them info on another person, or project.
Voting history would prob be attached to that ID, and might be a filter to cause you more investigative scrutiny.
Another way to track whether you “might” be using cash, as only criminals do that...
“So here’s a new idea: why not create new money at the bottom of the pyramid when people perform useful work in their communities? How about paying people for being producers, rather than paying them to be consumers?
Equality never gets better without a systemic crisis.
″ civilization has come at the cost of glaring economic inequality since the Stone Age. The sole exception, in his account, is widespread violence – wars, pandemics, civil unrest; only violent shocks like these have substantially reduced inequality over the millennia.”
There is also some carrot and stick going on in UBI, that only the conspiracy folks, and Bitcoin people are talking about.
This article is actually by the Davos group (Bilderburg) , and as a controlling tool, it would be VERY effective at holding a population hostage.
You would have to have a new “biometric” ID, and a linked bank account, that could be “attached” to negative interest rates, bail ins, and/or frozen if an economic “crises” was declared.
Even more power to the Police State, they could attach your linked account for any reason they wanted, even claiming a civil forfeiture, and have a very powerful argument for why you should give them info on another person, or project.
Voting history would prob be attached to that ID, and might be a filter to cause you more investigative scrutiny.
Another way to track whether you “might” be using cash, as only criminals do that...
“So here’s a new idea: why not create new money at the bottom of the pyramid when people perform useful work in their communities? How about paying people for being producers, rather than paying them to be consumers?
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2017/01/what-would-labor-centered-economy-look.html
That pot is cracked.
Equality never gets better without a systemic crisis.
″ civilization has come at the cost of glaring economic inequality since the Stone Age. The sole exception, in his account, is widespread violence – wars, pandemics, civil unrest; only violent shocks like these have substantially reduced inequality over the millennia.”
http://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/24/stanford-historian-uncovers-grim-correlation-violence-inequality-millennia/