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RE: The Economist And The World In 2019
I could actually see a good use scenario for a one world currency as in the price of a beer being the same in every country, though would it be?
Having traveled extensively across Asia is where I come unstuck with believing they could pull it off. I have been over to Cambodia 30 or more times from Thailand, and it is cash only and no cards for all, so getting a one world currency and convincing those people for me would be next to impossible. As most countries like their own heads of state on the currency to maintain "faith" in said currency if you get my train of thought?.....
Even if countries could print their own heads on the new currency, a one world bank loses control of the production from the off.
Ah but look at India, another cash in hand society .. look at how they are increasingly going to war on cash .. with the banning of large bills (which accounted for 86% of the money in circulation), how people were made to go to the bank and hand in these large amounts (which were often hidden under the bed) and have their wealth registered and basically forced into the banking system .. this would have been unthinkable a few years ago. My friend was out there at the time and there were people that had full time jobs waiting in line to draw the replacement (lower value) notes from bank machines. One day they will take away some of those notes as well .. slowly slowly ;)
Catch a monkey?
I did watch with interest the India affair, and also have friends over there, my mate Nigel told me a lot of people just trade goods now, like rice for meat etc, to avoid tax and government.
For every action and all that jazz.
Yes that is also happening in Greece as well, the law of cause and effect .. don't get me wrong, in the long term I don't feel as if they will ever break the human spirit, but you can see the intent. I think of all these countries as pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, trialing the social monitoring system in China, the stealth banning of cash in India .. observing how the public would react when the banks stole peoples cash in Cyprus .. i.e the bail ins. The rise of an internet of things that promises to track every product in the entire world. Smart dust and smart grid that they want to monitor every facet of our lives .. indeed , if there was some kind of financial meltdown or a war that pushed everyone into the mega smart city, self determinism would become increasingly difficult. It's also difficult to comprehend now, but ten years, twenty years. a hundred years? who knows what they can manipulate future generations into believing. There will always be a large percentage of people go along with what they are told .. equally they will always be a hardcore that refuse to be told, this is a race to the finish line .. but ultimately like you say .. freedom will prevail, although it will need to be intellectually fought for.