I think a UBI will be the big draw-card into CBDC adoption. The number of people already relying on some form of gov handouts (by design) is staggering. Especially when you consider FTB where the gov takes it in one hand (income tax), then hands it back with the other.
All they'd really need to advance CBDC adoption is to pay gov employees, welfare recipients, and FTB in a CBDC. Like China is doing.
More Chinese Government Employees Will Be Paid in Digital Yuan: Report - Decrypt
Public sector employees in Changshu will soon start receiving their entire paychecks in the form of digital yuan.decrypt.co
Makes me sick how easily it could be done, but more so how easily it could all be stopped if people just woke up and knew the truth.