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This will crowd out extremely vulnerable people, like people who are jobless. Every cent spent can be seen, criticized, marked off etc etc. Cash cannot be tracked, and yes, that invites crime, but I do not want all my transactions to be visible at all times. My friend who gets unemployment already cannot participate normally or borrow money from me because he has to show his PayPal and declare everything as income.
Cash is freedom.
The aim of the research on a digital euro is to have characteristics similar to cash. I suggest reading this op-ed and this interview.