The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters FREEMIUM: Brokenomics | We must stop Digital ID
Oct 7, 2025
Explore the dark motivations behind digital IDs and their potential to usher in generations of control. Discover how COVID restrictions set the stage for surveillance normalization and how digital IDs are linked to central bank digital currencies. Dan warns of political weaponization and social exclusion risks, as well as disastrous real-world examples from various countries. He advocates for alternatives like Bitcoin and zero-knowledge IDs, urging immediate action against mandatory systems to protect individual sovereignty.
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Digital ID As The Control Layer
- Digital IDs are being pushed as the glue to link CBDCs, services, and surveillance into a single control web.
- The Bank for International Settlements and global institutions openly promote identity as central to monetary control.
COVID As A Precedent For Control
- Dan recounts the COVID lockdowns and legal overreach that set precedents for digital control.
- He uses fines, policing mistakes, and the NHS COVID pass as examples of emergency powers becoming permanent.
Interoperability Removes Escape Routes
- International organisations push interoperable identity and financial rails so no country can escape the system.
- Interoperability means your digital ID and CBDC could follow you across borders.