Aus 🇦🇺 Australia Post confirms it will NOT go cashless after Unprecedented Public Outrage 🔥
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... 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.
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.