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Speaker 0 discusses what central bank digital currency (CBDC) might look like, noting that many people won’t like its appearance. He claims several central banks have already fully developed the final stage of CBDC, which would come in stages—initially through a mobile phone, but the final stage being small, the size of a grain of rice. He says this grain of rice is the entire wallet and digital ID, serving as your wallet, passport, and key.
Speaker 1 asks if that grain of rice is the entire wallet.
Speaker 0 confirms: yes, it’s your digital ID and wallet. He observes that debit and credit cards have moved to RFID chips for contactless payments, conditioning people to wave instead of swiping. He suggests the next rationale is that waving is faster, but raises concerns about losing or having cards stolen, implying a broader move toward implanting a microchip under the skin. He argues this would be a step too far for many due to human dignity concerns, requiring persuasion.
Speaker 0 then connects universal basic income (UBI) to this technology, noting UBI has been discussed for a century, but billionaires and the World Economic Forum only supported it in recent years. He states that since February 2015, big billionaires and the World Economic Forum have endorsed UBI. He claims Bill Gates stated in February 2017 that UBI is a good idea but too early to introduce it, and he asserts the missing element then was a digital ID. He attributes the timing to the COVID agenda, arguing the sequence was to develop the technology first, then the ID.
Speaker 0 explains a supposed usual game plan: central banks create boom-bust cycles and economic crises, then present a new idea as the solution. He contends that resistance to an implant would be high, so they sought another approach. He claims there is a World Economic Forum insight that once people accept electronic implants, there is a legal angle under which those with implants could be encouraged to be viewed as enhanced and not necessarily human, while the transhumanist movement entertains the idea of humanoid robots.
Speaker 1 asks about a potential consequence, and Speaker 0 reiterates the idea that once someone has a microchip implant, the next question is whether they will still have human rights. He claims the World Economic Forum has conducted surveys asking whether humanoid robots should have human rights, and that most people say yes once the implant is accepted.
In summary, the speakers discuss CBDC progression to a grain-sized digital ID wallet, RFID conditioning, the push for implantable chips, UBI advocacy by elites, a COVID-era trigger, a crisis-based rollout tactic, transhumanist legal considerations, and potential human-rights implications for humanoid robots.