As I mentioned in one of the previous posts, I started following various accounts related to projects funded by Value Plan.
One or more of them share content they deem relevant for their initiative/project and community.
That's how I started to take a glance at posts talking about paying for daily purchases or small treats with HBD in Latin America, specifically Sucre, which is nice. Hopefully, they will be able to bring in the network some suppliers too, so HBD would penetrate deeper into the local economy, and not just at the surface. I know they said they were working on that.
Now, looking at those posts and images (they are always highly visual), I couldn't help but wonder if we'd ever have this opportunity to use HBD for small purchases in Europe or in the US. Or in China. Or in Japan. Or in Korea.
They only had this chance to implement this small parallel payment system because the government needs dollars and HBD is pegged to the US dollar, so "they look the other way", as they said themselves.
In Europe, the US, and all the other countries mentioned the government is so much all over the people, and regulations are so tied nobody would even dream to set up something like this.
Right after communism fell in Romania I think such a system would have worked in here. For a few years or so. Yes, it was chaos, but I think you could have breathed in that chaos. And people enjoyed their freedom. I don't know, maybe I was not mature enough to understand how difficult life was for the regular family, including ours (and it was, with hyperinflation in the first years).
But I don't like where things are heading, with the main focus on manipulating the masses, reducing freedoms, and extending control.
Strange... As I wrote the words above it occurred to me that Romania - the former socialist state - could fit right in.
Oh, what those control freaks would have been able to do with today's technology! Luckily, they didn't have it.
Instead, the superpowers of today (and the smaller ones) are fully taking advantage of technology to our detriment.
Looks like ideology doesn't play a role. They all want as much as they can get.
Maybe we could take advantage of it for a change with decentralized crypto.