ElectronicsQuestions on Nostr: I doubt a CBDC would be necessary here. You know how the Swedish system works. The ...

I doubt a CBDC would be necessary here. You know how the Swedish system works. The ones in power, whether official power or (usually) not, hints at something being necessary and the right thing to do, and the media immediately takes their side, and every company bends over backwards in a competition of unnecessarily exaggerated compliance, putting up signs bragging about it.

Add a nearly cashless society, where almost everyone has digital ID in the form of Bank-ID (and you are generally looked at as the sole cause of your problems if you don't want to conform to this), and it wouldn't be any problem whatsoever to introduce limits and blocks on who can buy how much of what, if they decided to. Most people (especially in the big cities) would probably think it's great too, at least if it's portrayed as being for the climate.