It’s a world where instead of cash, only central bank digital currency “CBDC” is special money with full traceability, a limit on making purchases and sales of goods, and every month, if you don’t spend that money, your account is reset to zero. Because of this shit, you simply won’t have the luxury of owning anything: not a car, not equipment, including computers and smartphones, and not a house. As I suspect, people may not have the right to own anything by law. And one of the justifications for such a law is for the safety of all people аs, for example, is now happening with the law on Internet safety in europe, “who knows what you are trying to create in your garage? Or do you want to take revenge for the fact that the bright future of your children was taken away because of AI?”. Same with surveillance, there will be the same excuses for AI systems to track you constantly, to know your personality better than you do, to be able to predict your every move, emotion and desire.

Here are a few posts by other people, I think they will be a useful addition:

Ford Can Lock You Out of Your Own Car: https://lemmy.world/post/46363784

Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance: https://lemmy.world/post/46779888

About CBDC: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/04/27/cbdcs-are-slowing-in-asia-but-china-is-sticking-to-its-e-cny-plans/

Its my opinion but, I also think that they will try to reduce the world’s population from 8+ billion to 2-4 billion with the help of wars and famine, and possibly a new pandemic. The reason? Why do technocrats need so many additional people if they also need to be fed, when AI and robots are quite capable of automating almost all work and specializations? It’s just not profitable.