This is a very cool short film adaptation of it made a few years ago.

Awesome short story, those dancers always creeped me out.

I've never read it.

But I can tell, from that opening sentence, that it's gonna be a banger

Vonnegut said that Diana Moon Glampers is the protagonist of this story.

My boss at AT&T Labs actually read this to us on our first meeting in the office as new hires. We were founding the Corporate Accessibility Technology Office and trying to make our products accessible to people with disabilities. Great cautionary tale!

What's the Harrison Bergeron story about?

The year was 2045, and everyone was finally financially equal. The Ministry of Economic Harmony ensured it. No one could own more wealth than anyone else, and no one could transact freely without government oversight. Bitcoin, once a symbol of freedom and decentralization, was shackled by the Handlers of Equality. Citizens were fitted with Blockchain Suppressors—devices that scrambled private keys and erased unauthorized transactions before they could be completed. Those who dared to mine or trade in secret were subjected to the Ministry's "Equalization Protocols," which included public confiscation ceremonies where their digital wallets were drained and redistributed to the National Treasury. “If I tried to use Bitcoin,” said George, adjusting his Suppressor, “then others might try too—and soon we’d be back to the dark ages, with everyone competing for wealth. You wouldn’t like that, would you?” Hazel nodded vaguely, her mind unburdened by such complexities. Meanwhile, the faint hum of confiscated miners echoed in the distance, a reminder that freedom itself had been equalized.

{{Prompt in perplexity.ai: write a paragraph where a dysopian regime shackles people from using bitcoin. write in the style used in harrison bergerson}