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Yeah. They want a magnificent dystopia, where everything will be digitalized and you will be tracked, micro-chiped, no privacy, own nothing, only rented and be a happy 'user'.

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Physical SIMs are microchips.

I think OP meant microchips that cannot be detached from the device.

Physical SIMs can be easily disconnected and destroyed without destroying the device.

Which doesn't help from a tracking point of view because the device still retains a persistent, unchangeable identifier (the IMEI) which will be broadcasted as soon as you insert a new SIM (and maybe without one even, since in certain locations SIM-less emergency calls are possible).

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