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Originally Posted by MovieBird
How do you purchase a credit card?
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By using it, of course. Interest is the purchase price -- and a rather steep price it can be. And then there's theft, as mentioned by my learned colleague.
It will be interesting to see what happens when identity theft and piracy become so ubiquitous that citizens of the world are forced to question the practicality of ownership. Logistically (not ethically or idealistically), I can't see the result being a world full of Marxists or even neo-Platonists holding hands. I'll curious be to see how opportunism, greed and crowd control manage to manipulate the situation.
I haven't been paying enough attention to SF, but I expect more than a few authors must have covered that specific scenario.