2028: I purchase chocolate not intended for me. My aunt makes a booking that was never meant for her. The wine I drink is charged to my neighbour’s account, since I had already exceeded my digital spending limit in June. This is how I envision life under the digital euro. A courteous form of disenfranchisement and an instrument of totalitarian control. With it, the ECB equips itself with a mechanism of self-preservation, cementing its continued existence under immunity from c