As long as we are not eating our co-workers, I think we should be safe to get back into offices

... or eating the flesh of any animal

Edit: ... or eating plants:

https://www.virology.ws/2015/06/25/prions-in-plants/

They roll out the FedCoin and save us from barbarism.

Why is 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 good?

2) I guess we can debate how useful this is but surely it's strictly better than neutral, hence good?

3) Isn't it perhaps a useful way to provide a stimulus that people who already have enough cannot simply pile onto their hoarded supply?

4) I mean obviously we want to avoid money laundering.

2 and 3 are net negatives, giving too much power to the leader of the country...bread and circuses in their prime example. 4 is debatable, but in general - bad, money laundering is what the BigBrother decides it is.

Very conspiratorial of you. I, for one, would not like to discard the idea of a benevolent democratic government. Suit yourself.

Enjoy the next 20 years then!

I pray I will be alive when this system collapses.

The govcoins are going to be the modern day techno-slavery. You would not be able to buy a loaf of bread without Big Brothers. It is sickening that people say how good of an idea it is. SHAME ON YOU!

Technoserfdom. Neofudalism under the traditional institutions. Slavery is something else quite terrible and not an image that one wishes to conjure. But yeah, bad idea for freedoms.

The lowliest slave could hope to escape to the North and be free, if we talk about US style slavery. Or have their owner grant them freedom if we talk ancient Greece, Rome, etc...here not only the owner BUT the state has to agree as well.

Big brother controls loaf of bread... With crypto... Got it ... Didn't they control the wheat production and shipping lines before that though?

If all the payments go trough the BB - you cannot pay for anything Now even if I'm the lowest of the low I can scrape by a few coins and buy myself a loaf.

The Pandora's box is the Lockdown, not covid-19.

And 100% soy.