Exactly. People have a short memory.
There’s a big fuss about this now, but they’ll quietly transition to cashless over the next few years. We’ve already seen this shit with the banks.
Expect lots of news stories about old ladies having their life savings stuffed under their mattress stolen by "teenagers" which would have been saved if only she had the wisdom to use the digital dollar.
The massive propaganda wave from the banks and government on this is going to be interesting. They're going to give it the old covid treatment and make it out that the only ones who are against a cashless society will be terrorists and criminals.
I don't doubt eventually we'll be cashless but I think it'll be by a company than a government. I don't see any government without using coercion either by force or exclusion from services getting people to use it while I can see a private entity doing it and getting users by offering incentives and ease of use.
I can see more people being inclined to the carrot than the stick when it comes to money.
I pay cash EVERYWHERE for everything like my life depends on it.
CASHLESS SOCIETY WILL MEAN
NO saving for a rainy day. Negative interest rates are their ultimate goal.
NO selling unwanted items for cash.
NO tipping waiters or hairdressers.
NO car boot sales or markets.
NO fivers for the grandchildren,
NO coins for the homeless or buskers.
NO tooth fairy or piggy banks.
NO financial privacy and much more.
Every penny you receive will be recorded. Every transaction tracked.
Access to your money will be owned by and controlled by the state.
How and where you spend your money will be a privilege of the state.
Pretty much but thanks to what was used to be the go to currency to stockpile in, the US dollar, being devalued thanks to the actions of ideologically driven administration, it's weakening the argument not to go digital into some currency away from government control.
Don't get me wrong, cyptocurrencies like bitcoin have their own issues but it's eventually going to happen the same way that we moved from a barter system to currency in the first place.
The only currencies worth holding will be illegal for the common man to hold. Look at gold confiscation in the US when the transition to imaginary money occurred.
Look to the new BRICS currency, said to actually be backed by gold (we'll see if that's true) and what laws are created to declare it a currency of terrorists.
I feel bad for using a credit card for pretty much everything because I'm contributing to the problem (in a very small way obv), but it's hard to pass up that 2% cash back.
It's not just that, it's literally impossible to shop at places now with cash because they're doing the slow creep towards digital. I pointed this out to the cashier when I was withdrawing an absolutely miniscule amount of 'physical' cash from my account and she completely got where I was coming from because that's the way it is now.
I think unfortunately any chance of resisting this system going in place has gone up in smoke. Small businesses that would have otherwise taken cash payments have almost certainly been mostly killed off by the lockdowns. The supermarkets, well, you're just feeding physical cash into their operations and handing it all over to them.
Adding to that the problem of, here in the UK you can't even pay your utility bills and council tax with cash, well yeah, they've already manoeuvred to take over for the most part. The only realistic thing you can do is use banks at an absolute minimum if you're in a country that's doing this and buy Bitcoin and precious metals as part of your savings rather than relying on banks.
Alternatively, move to a country that doesn't submit to globohomo and still uses a more traditional economic system, but honestly, they're all fucking themselves over now so Bitcoin and Gold it is for me at least.
... for now.
When the next covid variant comes along - “cash is dangerous - use CBDCs for safety”
It will be more around fighting alt-right extremism and domestic-terrorism or climate change.
I've seen friends that opposed the patriot act becoming pro mass surveillance, pro censorship, pro having a chip install permanently.
All you have to do is say doing X makes you not an alt-right extremist and they will do it.
Exactly. People have a short memory. There’s a big fuss about this now, but they’ll quietly transition to cashless over the next few years. We’ve already seen this shit with the banks.
Expect lots of news stories about old ladies having their life savings stuffed under their mattress stolen by "teenagers" which would have been saved if only she had the wisdom to use the digital dollar.
The massive propaganda wave from the banks and government on this is going to be interesting. They're going to give it the old covid treatment and make it out that the only ones who are against a cashless society will be terrorists and criminals.
I don't doubt eventually we'll be cashless but I think it'll be by a company than a government. I don't see any government without using coercion either by force or exclusion from services getting people to use it while I can see a private entity doing it and getting users by offering incentives and ease of use.
I can see more people being inclined to the carrot than the stick when it comes to money.
People need to understand what they are losing…
I pay cash EVERYWHERE for everything like my life depends on it.
CASHLESS SOCIETY WILL MEAN
NO saving for a rainy day. Negative interest rates are their ultimate goal.
NO selling unwanted items for cash.
NO tipping waiters or hairdressers.
NO car boot sales or markets.
NO fivers for the grandchildren,
NO coins for the homeless or buskers.
NO tooth fairy or piggy banks.
NO financial privacy and much more.
Every penny you receive will be recorded. Every transaction tracked. Access to your money will be owned by and controlled by the state. How and where you spend your money will be a privilege of the state.
Pretty much but thanks to what was used to be the go to currency to stockpile in, the US dollar, being devalued thanks to the actions of ideologically driven administration, it's weakening the argument not to go digital into some currency away from government control.
Don't get me wrong, cyptocurrencies like bitcoin have their own issues but it's eventually going to happen the same way that we moved from a barter system to currency in the first place.
The only currencies worth holding will be illegal for the common man to hold. Look at gold confiscation in the US when the transition to imaginary money occurred.
Look to the new BRICS currency, said to actually be backed by gold (we'll see if that's true) and what laws are created to declare it a currency of terrorists.
My local Safeway removed cash payments from the self-checkout, and put creepy electronic gates at the door.
Haven't been back since. They must be heavily owned by BlackRock.
I feel bad for using a credit card for pretty much everything because I'm contributing to the problem (in a very small way obv), but it's hard to pass up that 2% cash back.
It's not just that, it's literally impossible to shop at places now with cash because they're doing the slow creep towards digital. I pointed this out to the cashier when I was withdrawing an absolutely miniscule amount of 'physical' cash from my account and she completely got where I was coming from because that's the way it is now.
I think unfortunately any chance of resisting this system going in place has gone up in smoke. Small businesses that would have otherwise taken cash payments have almost certainly been mostly killed off by the lockdowns. The supermarkets, well, you're just feeding physical cash into their operations and handing it all over to them.
Adding to that the problem of, here in the UK you can't even pay your utility bills and council tax with cash, well yeah, they've already manoeuvred to take over for the most part. The only realistic thing you can do is use banks at an absolute minimum if you're in a country that's doing this and buy Bitcoin and precious metals as part of your savings rather than relying on banks.
Alternatively, move to a country that doesn't submit to globohomo and still uses a more traditional economic system, but honestly, they're all fucking themselves over now so Bitcoin and Gold it is for me at least.