You will own nothing and be happy.

The subscription model is the future they want. A monthly fee for everything in life. Housing, transportation, information, basic necessities, even identity (check marks). Some they will push the convenience: Car subscriptions, get a new car every two years includes insurance! Others they will force by removing any other choice: Investment companies buying up homes, driving up prices, and then renting them to you at a premium. Still others they will just box you in: Verify your identity, have access to our previously free services, and avoid the mountain of ads that we dump on you.

You are already used to doing this from paying monthly utilities, rent, car lease, or fun delivery services that send clothes or food prep packages. But what happens when everything is a subscription? Any option to just buy something out right is not even offered anymore, even food. I don’t see meat in the catalog this month but cricket burgers are on sale!

You will own nothing and be happy. It has already started. It will continue slow but steady until one day it is complete and you never even noticed. You won’t mind. You will just go to your job and pay your monthly fee and your lifestyle will be exactly the same as before. Potentially it will be even better with nicer stuff than what you had before. You are happy. Until one day the fiat job stops.

Maybe you are too old to work anymore. Maybe the company had layoffs to bump up the stock price. Maybe you did or said something in your personal life that they didn’t like. Suddenly you are cut off from everything because you own nothing. Homeless, no transportation, nothing but the clothes on your back. You can’t even sell, pawn, or have a yard sale to raise quick cash because you literally own nothing. That house and car wasn’t yours, even the furniture was subscription. You might have a few personal Knick knacks but nothing anyone would want to buy or trade you for. Even all your personal pictures, books, and movies were digitally stored and streamed and you don’t have access anymore.

This would be exasperated by CBDCs as they wouldn’t even have to wait until you run out of fiat, they could just turn it off now. Plus this would take care of those savers who get too comfortable in their situation and start saying and doing things that they shouldn’t.

You will own nothing and be happy.