Control Grid and Nudge

With the control grid enabled by programmable money, the legislators eventually become more or less ‘show and tell’ without any fiscal policy power. They just become figureheads;

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What is control grid? Catherine Austin Fitts talks about the concept of control grid snapping into place quickly and becoming fast reality.

Control grid is “a process or infrastructure that allows digital technology to be used to assert phenomenal control and surveillance of people.” At the heart of this control grid is ‘programmable money.’

Programmable money is not exactly a currency but digital money that comes with a set of rules that can be enforced by banks. Bankers, who traditionally run monetary policy, could run fiscal policy as well via programmable money.

During Covid, if you left your house when told not to, if you tried to spend your money via digital currency, the banking system would invalidate its use because you left your house. The money becomes programmed with AI to enforce a certain set of rules that would go against your wishes.

Such programmable money allows bankers to control not only monetary policy, i.e. interest rates and the money stock, but also........

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