Sure, I’m happy to elaborate on that a bit.
Is it really necessary to insult an entire age group of people based on stereotypes?
First, I don’t see the insult. I didn’t say what they’re doing is bad, I just stated that realistically, instead of actually standing up for their (perceived?) right to use cash (apparently defined as “the type of coins and bank notes circulated by governments in the 20th and beginning of 21st century”), they’re doing other things. Talk is cheap. That btw goes for mostly everyone on this planet, but also for the boomers that were explicitly mentioned by @HauntSanctuary
Then let’s talk about stereotyping: Yes indeed, I’m using stereotypes insofar as that I made a statement in the form of “group Y is doing X”. This kind of statement will always not be 100% true for every reasonably large group Y. I could say that Chinese people eat their food with chopsticks, and while that is a pretty basic statement that could come out of a children’s book comparing food culture around the world, out of the billion people that are Chinese, there will be a substantial amount of people not using chopsticks to aid with ingesting food. I don’t think we necessarily always need to add these kind of disclaimers to every statement, especially when they’re obvious.
Ok onto the necessity part. Yes, of course I felt the necessity to make the comment, otherwise I would not have made it. Now if you read a little bit between the lines, you notice that what I’m actually saying here is not so much about boomers specifically, it’s about people. Especially if you have also read the rest of the thread above, you’ve seen that I originally argued as to the inevitability of some form of CBDC coming into wide use in the next 100 years or so. Now, we have our goals mostly aligned here on the Privacyguides forum insofar that we want to do payment transactions between two parties and keep it between these two parties only, with no or minimal data being accrued anywhere, etc. and I’m calling into question with my comment whether just “backing the boomers” (or people in general, if you will) is actually enough to achieve anything close to that. In the end, I suspect they will succumb to their lower urges and use whatever kind of CBDC there is so long as it is sufficiently convenient to use and the misuse of their data and violation of privacy is not egregiously apparent. I’m therefore advising another course of action, namely early advocacy of privacy-conscious implementations of a CBDC that bring with themselves the same amount of convenience and spreading awareness of that throughout the population.
How does that add to the discussion?
Well seeing the discussion so far, most comments can be summarized as “CBDC bad, cash good”, without going into any further (+ the one meta comment from you). My two comments however seem to be the only ones that don’t just voice a subjective opinion but also try to tackle reality. But of course, I used the word “boomers” and some irony (my attempt at self-deprecating humor considering my own age), now everything’s vain. I should’ve just posted an image meme of Scrooge McDuck praising his unwashed collection of chemical element 79 and it would’ve been all for the better.
