If this has been achieved with the use of a middle man, ie the banks, what more could the state enforce on it's citizens using CBDCs?
I'm writing this while sitting in the UK, where our constitution is not written but drawn from many strands.
In the US you have "We the People". The first three words of the United States Constitution. This philosophical rock on which the constitution is built sets out from its very beginning the fact that the government receives it power from its citizens.
If this has been achieved with the use of a middle man, ie the banks, what more could the state enforce on it's citizens using CBDCs?
I'm writing this while sitting in the UK, where our constitution is not written but drawn from many strands.
In the US you have "We the People". The first three words of the United States Constitution. This philosophical rock on which the constitution is built sets out from its very beginning the fact that the government receives it power from its citizens.
May this be more honoured not in the breach.