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Next big thing is gonna be the upcoming global push to ban people driving older cars without internet connectivity that can't be shut down remotely "for your protection."

It is another way of limiting freedom of assembly, freedom of association, and a new power to add to the social credit system, formal or informal.

Remember: first thing that happens to "undesirables" in China is they are banned from travelling when their social credit drops too low.

Already spreading to the UK (ULEZ) and I want to be clear, although almost all EVs are IoT, so are most new ICE vehicles. Internal combustion doesn't guarantee safety from this. The popular OnStar system in the US can remotely stop your car already for instance. You must ensure zero remote connectivity.

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Russo 2y ago

Thats true, here they are elevating the taxes on older cars..

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

Yup. Here the government will subsidise EVs too. Interestingly, this was initially open to anyone who bought one. It has since changed so there are tax breaks for leasing an EV as a company car. Lease only. Not purchase.

Mark Camper 2y ago

CBDCs will come dressed up as tax credits. Everyone loves tax credits and discounts.

In the meantime, the prices of not encouraged things will be getting unaffordable.

They will weaponize the Cantillon effect by steepening it and giving giving these ESG chances to partially participate on it.

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

I also predict we'll see CBDCs being introduced during UBI rollouts.

UBI is insidious as fuck. Get everyone dependant on the state and dress it up like the government is Robin Hood. Or rather Robbing Hood.

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

ESG will absolutely be heavily used too 1000%.

One spark of hope for all these new ESG bullshit companies getting VC funding is that the market doesn't seem to give a fuck about buying ESG stonks.

The free market can only be manipulated so much. Ultimately if number doesn't go up the VC money dries up and they're dead in the water.

https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/vanguards-climate-group-exit-shows-retail-investors-trail-esg-2023-01-12/

Mark Camper 2y ago

Yea. It does feel like they are sacrificing the ESG narratives per se. But they took the climate out of it and running with it; and with the war mongering instead.

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

Sadly I agree...

"Environment didn't work as an excuse, onto the next narrative."

CitizenPleb 2y ago

War against “ghost cars.”

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

Is this a term already in use? It seriously wouldn't surprise me. They'll have to give them a label to run the scaremongering campaigns.

CitizenPleb 2y ago

No, but I would think it would be very easy to slip in legislation that would require all vehicles to be GPS enabled through vehicle registration and/or emissions testing.

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

One of the London mayoral candidates proposed a per-mile carbon credit system for driving in the city centre.

Not some whacky Green Party guy either.

I happen to know from the industry that tech companies are already developing individual carbon trackers. They wouldn't do that if there were no customers.

So, sadly, I can see this happening.

The most powerful thing we can do is educate as many people as possible and focus on the risks of CBDCs and why they should be rejected.

Rejection of a CBDC will make implementing and actually enforcing further totalitarian social credit type legislation a lot more difficult.