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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;montynj3417, post: 7675794, member: 89220&quot;]In Nazi Germany, if the government didn&#039;t like you, they&#039;d do charming things like confiscating your bank account, therefore limiting your cash supply to whatever you could find in your mattress or sewed up in the lining of your wife&#039;s coat. If you wished to leave all of that behind, and take a portion of your assets with you to start a new life, you&#039;d have to take it with you in the form of diamonds squirreled away in the heels of your shoes and hope that your luck would hold.</p><p>I&#039;ve heard that the plan here in the U.S. for the future is a thing called the &quot;Great Reset&quot;. This is where Bill Gates and all of his tech giant buddies, having all of our lawmakers in a state of subservience to them, get to make laws that give them an iron grip on lawmaking, law enforcement, healthcare choices, control of money and finance, what we have now, only worse!...I could go on, and here, below, do.</p><p>One of the things that the &quot;Great Reset&quot; is expected to feature is widespread, compulsory compliance (on the parts of us peons) with healthcare mandates handed down by the all-seeing state. Another prediction is that all currency will be made digital. No one will be able sell you a porkchop or a dozen eggs, even if you waved a fistful of cash at them, or tried to use your Chase Metamorphosed Limestone Card.</p><p>The only thing that would work is the digital money credited to your payroll account from your job or from whatever faceless social welfare program that holds you in thrall with your standard, measly, monthly stipend (Social Security has been done away with and also all so-called entitlement programs, including what were private, determined benefit retirement funds, in a massive downsizing, streamlining and consolidation). You either work, or you&#039;re on the dole and by law, the government knows, to the last integer; the last screw, nut and washer, your net worth.</p><p>If you screw up in some way, your kids don&#039;t show up to get their scheduled vaccinations or maybe someone complains often enough about you not leashing your dog, Social Conduct Points will be deducted from your (virtual) Account, and if your Social Conduct Score gets too low, the state is legally authorized to make life for you and your family less pleasant by legally-mandated degrees: compulsory behaviour evaluations and classes; licenses revoked, job demotions, other privileges suspended. In certain drastic legal remedies, you and the family may be asked to report to a much crappier, less desirable part of the country to enroll for your weekly/monthly digital benefits, with the option of you declining to go, only to find out that there are now no records of your eligibility for benefits and your account is closed, here in your hometown. What then, will you and your family do for support and sustenance?</p><p>This is the tightly-controlled world that Charles Koch, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and other giants of tech and finance, see their heirs inheriting; dominance and control over our grandchildren or great-grandchildren. Hell, they&#039;d be tickled pink if they could pull it off after the 2022 elections! Some of them, at this writing, do in fact presently have several backwards and a few not-so-backwards countries by their proverbial short hairs.</p><p>The more I&#039;m hearing about BitCoin, though, the more I&#039;m encouraged to think that it may be possible for people who invest to retain a degree of independence in life choices, if at least a portion of what we think of as our assets (money) can be maintained away from the aegis of those who may wish, in good time, by patient purchase of patents and lawmakers, to assume control over all of the decisions that we now take for granted as nobody&#039;s business but our own.</p><p>That is my two cent piece for tonight. I hope I didn&#039;t bum anyone out with this, but this is the buzz I&#039;m hearing and it would be interesting and valuable to learn what other guys are hearing and thinking. This isn&#039;t about coins, per se, but about money and control of our lives. Someday, down the line, it could become possible, with a stroke of a pen, to make money as we know it now, extinct and replaced, with a digital demesne over which we have little or no control, and others, all control.</p><p>Good night, yes, from a guy who usually doesn&#039;t say very much. If I&#039;ve said too much, I apologize in advance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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