IMO people aren't the sheep some posters here think they are. Yes, they chose credit cards over cash, but that's because most of them were certain that the money on their card is real cash converted to ones and zeros. The risk of using a card over cash wasn't really that big for your average joe, but the convenience was greatly increased.
When it comes to CBDCs most people don't care because they don't have to deal with it right now, nobody forces them to use it, there's a chance it will not go live in their lifetimes, they don't know the details because governments sell it to them as a new, more digital fiat money, that can be assigned to a face ID. This doesn't sound bad if that's all you know.
Joe thinks about it and comes to a conclusion that if he loses his wallet abroad, he'll still be able to buy a ticket home by simply getting scanned at the airport. Pretty convenient if you ask me.
If they start blocking people for their social media activity, fining them for what they write online, there's going to be riots, unless they choose to deal with it like China did and roll out the tanks.
I have no idea why people think carbon credits (which will restrict your red meat/gasoline consumption etc.) is a "conspiracy theory":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djpRUafjx7cYet again, most people don't even know what WEF is... or perhaps they think it's some "innocent" global forum.

And no, this won't be optional, it will be mandatory. Why? Because most people buy the "human-made" climate change BS. They've dug their own (Net Zero) grave.
Trust me, I would be very happy if I were Klaus Schwab or Bill Gates and you believed my pseudo-religious BS (repent your climate sins

), but I'm not!
I'm just a regular middle class person. Bill Gates will keep flying his private jet and eating juicy steaks, while we will be forced to eat ze bugs.
The more people think this is a conspiracy theory, the more happy papa Klaus and uncle Gates become. Because if the majority of people truly believed it and didn't dismiss it as a "conspiracy theory", they would revolt against their sinister
techno-communism plans.