Unless we've radically redefined what dystopia means someone has to explain to me what's bad about a welfare system that people can't abuse to buy booze.

All I get from the article is that CBDCs enable pretty reasonable interventions like subsidizing electric cars, penalizing fast food, and so on. Which we already do because it's a good idea to not set the planet on fire or have the entire population be obese in 30 years. And we get rid of the middlemen in the process

pretty tame as far as dystopias go