[pibechorro]

Authoritarian rule doesnt persist via tanks and stormtroopers knocking on your door, it persist by leveraging minor daily convenience, necessities, which mold compliance. Social credit system.

If you cant take the bus to work, if you are denied healthcare because of xyz, if you are denied access to credit, or the grocery store, etc.in a cashless economy.. then most people are controlled without any violence.

This is one of the main reasons many are against an increase of centrally managed services such as universal state healthcare, ubi, etc.. because once they control exclusively a necessity in your life, they can leverage it to ram anything they want or deny you sevices. Freedom lies in choice.

[multjoy]

>This is one of the main reasons many are against an increase of centrally managed services such as universal state healthcare

Huh, who'd have thought that treatment at the point of use is simply a way for Big Government to control me.

I shall insist on paying thousands of pounds for simple and routine treatments in future. That will show them.