Cashless Society and the End of Freedom

Siddhart Tripathi
Nov 8 · 7 min read

In the 1970s, a group of researchers was assigned a simple task. Imagine you work for the KGB and you need to create a perfect surveillance system without creeping people out. And this is what they came up with.

They predicted a widespread adoption of debit cards would be the best surveillance system within the constraint of not being obtrusive. And they were right. With a debit card, you are…

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Siddhart Tripathi

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