I take it you read mainly MSM arista.
What is your reasoning for believing this won't be happening soon?

yes

Are you inquisitive enough to understand the implications not just for us but for our children and the future generations ahead of us?
The government is a corporation and we shouldn't be misguided in believing they care about us, the common man.

We need to ask ourselves why MSM (not a single one) have informed us of how CBDC's could be the start of tyranny for the common man throughout the Western world and yet all you see on here is MSM... government stooges.

No,
I have not

To be fair, nothing about the word "progress" inherently suggests altruism or positivity. Progress is progress, it's neutral, just a descriptive term. Agricultural societies were progress from hunter gatherers... Neoliberal capitalism was progress from the industrial revolution... Whether or not these things are ultimately good for human beings is a totally separate discussion. They happened... and (it seems likely) that this will also happen. Any illusion of control over this sort of wide-scale global progress is only going to lead to an extremely frustrating existence.