Has the SWIFT payment system devolved into a totalitarian dystopia?
What I'm worried about are the new proposals and the gradual erosion of cash as an escape hatch.
Is that an example of a totalitarian dystopia? Not really, but it's not "the land of the free", either. I'm thankful that technology like BTC (or better yet, Monero) exists so that this kind of bullshit is merely an inconvenience and not a blocker.