Why Digital ID Is The Hill To Die On: The Authentication Layer

Authored by Joshua Stylman via Substack, A friend and I got into it recently. He’s smart, freedom-minded, and totally gets the danger of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). Expiring money, programmable control, carbon budgets – he sees most of the expanding tyranny clearly. And yet he dismisses Digital ID as a distraction. When I try to make the case that digital ID is the gateway to the gulag in the metaverse, he demands I name ONE thing Digital ID gives the government that they can’t already do. My answer: it enables CBDC. Of course, governments have already encroached on our…