An observation: People who are angry about CBDCs are almost all non-technical (certainly not the usual HN programmer crowd). Programmers are generally good at s

An observation: People who are angry about CBDCs are almost all non-technical (certainly not the usual HN programmer crowd). Programmers are generally good at seeing how a system actually works, and we realize that CBDCs don't give the government any new power that they don't already have. Also, we don't get confused and somehow think that a CBDC is going to replace paper money (or worse, and even more cyberpunk magical thinking, somehow think that physical money will become a digital computer with a touchscreen and a mind of it's own, looking for dissidents and giving them papercuts).