> them beginning to starve within days because they don't have any way to pay for anything immediately I mean, if that's the only scenario you care about, you

> them beginning to starve within days because they don't have any way to pay for anything immediately I mean, if that's the only scenario you care about, you can just carry more cash in your wallet. But when you said "a system that allows governments to arbitrarily "turn off" thousands or millions of people at the push of a button", that sounded like you were worried about more than just not having enough money for groceries for the week.