“We must prevent the introduction of central bank digital currencies ‘because that is the epitome of a centralized, controlled, even totalitarian system,’ economist Richard Werner, Ph.D., said on a recent episode of ‘The Kim Iversen Show.’”
I fully agree. And we needed decentralized governmental systems as well. I think this is what prevented helped citizens the US during the COVID-19 relative to their counter parts in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia…the states still have autonomy and can opposes centralized control from the federal government.