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Digitized Money...Sure, More Efficient, But at What Cost to Our Freedoms? Maybe All.

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  "The future of money is digital currency." Bill Gates  For my class project I was assigned to write an essay on personal economics. I decided to interview my mom on how things have changed since the 2020s, when she was a child, and today. So what I thought I would focus on was how the move to total digital currencies changed society forever. So where do I begin? I could point to how shopping is so much more convenient, and personalized. My mom said in her day you had to carry money or a plastic card to make a purchase. Now that is all handled with the digital wallet, or micro-chip, inserted into my hand.  Everything is connected to the bank and I get a notice when my funds are getting low. As I noted, even shopping is personalized. All people have had their DNA filed and analyzed for instance. According to my DNA I stand a 60% chance of developing type-2 diabetes in my life. So once I go over a prescribed threshold for sweets or carbohydrates, I am not authorized to bu...

Sex Trafficking/Modern Slavery: Donald Trump's Quest to Stop Both (updated version)

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In light of the issue of sex trafficking getting a lot of attention (thank goodness) with the movie "Sound of Freedom" we should never forget that Donald Trump did everything he could to combat this evil.   Original article follows:  “ Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man’s nature; opposition to it on his love of justice .” Abraham Lincoln   Recently, President Donald Trump stated, in regards to human trafficking: " It's a very, very terrible problem, it's not talked about enough. People don't know enough about it and we're going to talk about it and we're going to bring it out into the open and hopefully we're going to do a great deal to help prevent some of the horrific, really horrific crimes that are taking place. "  (Reuters, Feb. 23, 2017)                                  ...