For those who think they can just opt out of this, do not fool yourselves. Over a year ago my family stumbled in to a nasty surprise. We were nearing the end of a city hike when my oldest kid, then 8, suddenly needed to use the restroom right NOW. We were in a newly opened shopping area underneath elevated train tracks in Tokyo. I quickly found the restrooms, but they were all “QR CODE ONLY” restrooms. To use the restrooms, you first must obtain the QR Code from a qualified merchant in the shopping area. To do so, you first must make a qualifying purchase with from the qualified merchant. Once the transaction is complete, the merchant will prove the QR Code for you to scan with your idiot phone. You then take your idiot phone to the QR Code controlled door and have the QR Code scanner scan the code from your phone’s screen. Let that sink in a bit. All of it. I do not own an idiot phone. Kid is crying out that they need to use the toilet. “Luckily”, my wife has an idiot phone. After inquiring with a few shops, we find one that is qualified to provide us the QR Code necessary to allow our kid to use the restroom....after the qualifying purchase was made. Now, imagine this incorporated into the ESG system. As far as every one entering it voluntarily, what else have we already voluntarily entered? We voluntarily allow all sorts of tracking even when we turn it off or decline offers to share data just by carrying the devices we use. Our computers are designed to spy on us and they do. Our banks spy on us for the governments as do our credit cards. While this may not be in use in the US, for certain uses, cash is tracked as easily, perhaps more so, than other transactions in Japan. The most common form of payment of wages and salary is through direct deposit with the most common and preferred to the point of penalizing those who don’t method of paying monthly bills is through automatic allotments. I do not like this and receive as many bills through t he mail to pay via cash as possible, and pay more to do so. However, the bills come with a barcode that probably displays all my information on the screen of the convenience store’s register and certainly collects and sends all the information including location, date and time I paid the bill. Simple to implement in the US or anywhere. While one of our local supermarkets is pushing back and only accepts cash, the number of registers accepting cash at other super markets and convenience stores is decreasing. The fear of catching covid has driven this still cash based society to embrace a “cashless” system. I am of the opinion that one of the many goals of the panic is the destruction of cash as legal tender and is using all the tactics laid out in this article. There is no hiding from this. It must be fought and defeated.