unSATiated
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This is the manufactured dilemma at the base of the entire edifice. Money loses value. Therefore you must make it grow. Therefore you need financial products. Therefore you need asset managers. Therefore you need fees. Therefore you need gates. The entire $1.8 trillion private credit industry, the $30 trillion passive management complex, and every obscure quarterly-redemption-window BDC in between. All of it traces back to a single upstream policy decision: engineer money to lose value, and watch a financial services industry metastasize to fill the void. Like a drug dealer who creates his own market, the Federal Reserve manufactured the addiction, and Wall Street sells the fix.
So the system catches honest people. Stores their real biometrics. Creates permanent records. Meanwhile criminals walk through with synthetic identities.
So you'll be required to carry an ID built in secret by corporations and governments, including potentially authoritarian ones, with zero public interest input.
And you can't even read the rules governing how it works.
KOSA, the Kids Online Safety Act, was passed in December. The House tried to bundle it with 18 other age verification bills into one massive package. They're not debating whether to do this and they're debating how fast.