Idk, the tron metaphor was a bit too cute for me, and there's a bit too much of a conspiratorial bent. Like sure, banks, government, and tech companies are ince

Idk, the tron metaphor was a bit too cute for me, and there's a bit too much of a conspiratorial bent. Like sure, banks, government, and tech companies are incentivized towards increasing demand for digital payments, but each are motivated for different reasons, I highly doubt it's nearly as coordinated as described and born out of distaste towards average people, it's probably more on the logistics and around money velocity. It's also ahistorical to look at it as a uniquely contemporary development. Paper money itself derives from bank notes and goldsmith notes, the convenience of use drives demand for abstraction.