>>How so? The goverment is more than aware of what I make. But if I do work under the table or buy something on the black market how is the goverment to know. This kind of control is impossible.
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>Eventually everything will be computerized. It will take several years to go there but it will happen.
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>If you put money in your bank account there will have to be an official trace that will lead the government to where the money came from. You won't be able to keep it secret.
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>If you think that you can keep that money in your home so the government won't know about it. Then the problem will be when you want to use that money to buy something because every businesses will be linked with the government so they will be able to check how much money gets in your pockets versus how much money gets (officially) in.
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>No more credit cards like we know today. The future cards will be assigned with a unique identification to every citizen in order for the government to be able to watch how we act as consumers. Isn't that scary ???

Interesting. Very 1984 / Brave New World kind of ideas. Well, unless we end up with a dictatorial type government that abolishes all the privacy laws I don't think it will ever get to this level. That said, hey, anythings possible.

As for the goverment, and businesses for that matter, watching how we act as consumers, they do it now. All those credit card and debit card transactions that contain who you are, what you bought and where you bought it aren't sitting in limbo. They're compiled, analyzed and sold all the time.

Cheers,