I'll admit, I'm one of those who for the most part is a cashless consumer. The only time I find myself using greenbacks these days is when the local backwater municipality cant' afford the system to take an online or credit card payment.
Too me the immediate concern it isn't about using the data against people like me who are low on the totem pole of life trying to make ends meet. But rather when people in power use the information against those seeking it. Similar to how I think the FISA courts may have been recently abused. It can divide a nation along party lines, create politicians for life, encourages nepotism, and cause the good 'ol boy network (a.k.a. 'deep state') to thrive.
It will make Abraham Lincoln out to be a liar as it slowly whittles away at "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." It will change slowly and with the medias help the populace will remain completely oblivious and unconcerned. Personally I think we are divided as planned we bicker and gossip amongst ourselves like old women all too often to be concerned about anything which truly matters.
Very far into the future well after my lifetime the paranoia sets in the mind of the leaders. That's when the little guy gets caught up in the purges.
Then again, it could be we'll all wake-up and see that it was just a bad dream.
