The damaging part is devaluing the paper cash. When there's no power, what do you use? Not coins and bills, we discontinued them and called them worthless.
OK
So we dug up a pallet of cash from a landfill to use during our EMP emergency. Cool, but what is a $1 worth? 1 dollar equals 1 cbdc at the time of impact? 1 cbdc as of the most recent system backup? As of last years audit?
Or is a dollar just worth what a dollar was worth before it went defunct? Okay but is that pre- or post-covid hyperinflation? Like are eggs $3, $9, or $800 a dozen? What if you go to the next town over, is a dollar still worth the same? Last word from the government is that they're valueless.
I think ruining the cash implies an enemy preparing us for EMP. Look at Venezuela though, EMP isn't even necessary with sufficiently inept puppets in office.
If an EMP took out those computers, our water system, refrigeration, transportation, basically everything would be f-ed. Lack of coin and paper cash would be a small issue.
The damaging part is devaluing the paper cash. When there's no power, what do you use? Not coins and bills, we discontinued them and called them worthless.
OK
So we dug up a pallet of cash from a landfill to use during our EMP emergency. Cool, but what is a $1 worth? 1 dollar equals 1 cbdc at the time of impact? 1 cbdc as of the most recent system backup? As of last years audit?
Or is a dollar just worth what a dollar was worth before it went defunct? Okay but is that pre- or post-covid hyperinflation? Like are eggs $3, $9, or $800 a dozen? What if you go to the next town over, is a dollar still worth the same? Last word from the government is that they're valueless.
I think ruining the cash implies an enemy preparing us for EMP. Look at Venezuela though, EMP isn't even necessary with sufficiently inept puppets in office.
If an EMP took out those computers, our water system, refrigeration, transportation, basically everything would be f-ed. Lack of coin and paper cash would be a small issue.