Offred, in the years previous to the
new government, had experienced the changes made regarding the workforce and
how paper money was transformed into the value of plastic cards and then the
Compubank. The alterations were minor, and hardly noticeable, but they occurred
for a certain reason. People were meant to be oblivious to the fact that the
current government was slowly deteriorating, and a new authoritarian was rising up, leading civilization towards
the society she is forced to live in at the present.
“All those women having jobs: hard to
imagine, now, but thousands of them had jobs… It was considered the normal
thing. Now it’s like remembering the paper money… You had to take those pieces
of paper with you when you went shopping, though by the time I was nine or ten
most people used plastic cards. Not for
the groceries though, that came later. It seems so primitive, totemistic even,
like cowry shells. I must have used that kind of money myself… before
everything went on the Compubank.
I guess
that’s how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without
anyone knowing beforehand.”
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