They had to do it over at least a couple generations. Doing so all at once would have triggered the people's righteous wrath. But they dumbed us down, ran heavy propaganda, conducted social engineering, stretched out the con over decades, and got their agenda met one way or another. We're so close to the cashless world they've dreamed of for more than a century they can almost taste it. These creeps (probably the grandkids of the ones who started it all) are about to inherit the entire world economy. Well, that's their plan, anyway. It's not over yet!