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Ok, and then it goes to alcohol, sugar, meat, and fuel as items that people can't help themselves to stop buying? I mean, this is what consumption taxes do. A
by gilleain 4y ago
Ok, and then it goes to alcohol, sugar, meat, and fuel as items that people can't help themselves to stop buying?
I mean, this is what consumption taxes do. A tax on sugar makes it more expensive to buy a sweet drink, so you can buy less of them for the same money. By putting it into the programming of the money, you make the control more precise - you can only buy 1 sugary drink a day, for example.
- InCityDreams 4y agoWhat if someone is doing exercise/ heavy work and need more sugar, for example?
- gilleain 4y agoSure, that's one flaw in the (dystopian) plan. I'm sure there are many others. I guess the horrible bureucratic solution would be to get a 'sugar license' or similar. To be clear, this would be a nightmare, I think!
- tough 4y agothen you create a black market of non-sugary drinkers reselling their allowance to the sugar-addicted