The new PIX monitoring is already causing a absolute firestorm in the Brazilian society. There are quite a few reports of people already dropping it and demanding to be paid in cash only, the conspiracies about
DREX (BRL CBDC) are now looking way less schizo. There are industrial levels of cope in the left and the Lula defense squad, with shitloads of MAVs (Militante em Ambiente Virtual, basically shills) going all "This is fake news, there is no new taxes, there is nothing to fear if you are not trying to evade taxation" (Yes they have unironically taken the "Nothing to fear if nothing to hide citizen" road on this). The biggest cope here is insisting there is no taxes on Pix itself, ignoring the issue that people would likely be way less mad if they had decided to charge for the transactions and that the real point of the monitoring of the entire system is to force people who are poor as shit to pay Income Tax by counting the cents they have to force them over the threshold of the tax brackets.