How CBDCs Could Decide What You Can and Cannot Buy

So I’m back with another report. This time, it’s CBDCs.

Honestly, with Neuralink, AI everywhere, Starlink blanketing the sky, and now programmable money, it’s hard not to feel we’re drifting straight into an Orwellian future.

This does not feel like progress anymore. It feels like a system where freedom shrinks a little more each year.

I would not be surprised if in 50 years the norm would be chipped humans wired to the cloud, always online, always tracked. Those who stay unplugged risk getting cut out. And none of this will be airtight. There will be backdoors, exploits, state-level snooping. Literally Cyberpunk 2077.

Places like China would likely push this further. With CBDCs, the government will have instant visibility into every payment, power to approve or deny transactions in real time, authority to freeze accounts, tools to limit purchases to approved goods, the ability to block donations to certain groups, control over where and when money can be spent, and an automatic way to punish dissent through financial means.