It is not obvious that monetary policy needs additional flexibility, and any benefits from eliminating physical currency must be balanced against the costs of digital surveillance and the loss of privacy.”
https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/05/us-conservative-political-organization-makes-the-case-against-cbdcs-praises-bitcoin-and-private-stablecoins/ This sort of argument is true as far as it goes but I don't see how these cons respond to govts airdropping their shit and promising to turn a blind eye on smaller transaction surveillance. The fascist Chinese are already making the running on this! Practical money-laundering tactics and a huge regulatory-arbitrage PR campaign look like a better response from this self-described, progressive, leftist anarchist. And the notion cons care about consumers is completely risible. Most of their stink-tanks revolve around screwing consumers wholesale. When in power this type of con is as bad as Marxist-Communists. ( Sear Dolfuss 34 and Pinochet 73 ) Consumers beware the walking brain-dead.
