Despite digitized cash creating a new avenues for totalitarian surveillance, the trend is its convenience and security compensates most people enough to make the switch.  Less any ' Elite Plot ' and more like just another Faustian pact with networked technology.

From the pov of any woke anarchist the rise of the anarchic net is an overwhelmingly good thing. Despite tainted beginnings and corrupted platform monopolists like the FAANG, most outcomes have been good.  This is without even factoring in cryptoanarchist infrastructure creating a trillion in new value since 2010. Digitized networked cash is a part of this anarchic revolution and - even in its worst central bankster guise - can't help now but spread the revolution. There is no need for any neo-conspiracist drivel about economics. No need to cling-on to fiat ( and even less for Gold!) Only those floating around on garbage-scows of disinformation would ever want to put actual disease carrying cash under their filthy mattresses. Amirite Gramps?