They're making it this way on purpose which is why I don't begrudge people who simply can't take part in the boycott. It's like getting mad at somebody who wants to go bankless but can't, how are you going to pay your bills? In my country for example I'm pretty sure most companies don't even accept cash by mail anymore so you actually can't live without a bank account and good luck paying your council tax by cash if they even accept that anymore.
This is why I roll my eyes at boycotters sometimes because it's a convenient larp, talk to me when you manage to disconnect yourself from society Amnish style but I bet even they have bank accounts that they pay into for tax purposes unless they've got some kind of deal setup with their local government.
How long is that going to be the case though? Thanks for the information, but they're trying to force everybody to go digital for a reason. Not being a doomer on this point, just being a programmer like many other people in the tech field I can see which way the chips are landing. You're practically needing a phone in some cases now to even use certain services and apps because they don't provide desktop options. I know for example my bank requires it for their 2factor to work because they send you an code via SMS and you need this code to log in sometimes.
As bad as it will be initially, because it's run by a bunch of boomers and programmers on contract who aren't very good ( Probably Indians on the lowest payroll possible ) it's going to be hilarious seeing how quickly it all falls apart. They're trying to hype it up now, but all these poorly designed and overly fancy instruments are going to fail and it is going to cause absolute chaos when they implement it. Not only because of sabotage by a disgruntled public but general incompetence too. Imagine how bad of an idea it is having so much of your infrastructure and security requiring a constant stream of electricity and internet connections and you get the idea.
Yes and no, it depends on the boycotting, I mean granted I've just been ranting about London and I am now going to actively refuse to go anywhere near that shithole no matter what as if I didn't need enough of a reason. I feel like a true secessionist movement that basically told the local government to go fuck itself would do far more than any kind of uprising. We've all seen ranches etc. where that kind of shit goes down, the boomer style spergfest is just a fast way to get yourself killed and I don't want to see more of that than we've got already.
It is I grant you though ultimately pointless to boycott anything if you've got no alternative and also government can just fuck you up anyway regardless of whether you say yes or no. It's going to take a whole community getting pissed off about something for any real change to happen and we're simply not seeing that yet.
They're making it this way on purpose which is why I don't begrudge people who simply can't take part in the boycott. It's like getting mad at somebody who wants to go bankless but can't, how are you going to pay your bills? In my country for example I'm pretty sure most companies don't even accept cash by mail anymore so you actually can't live without a bank account and good luck paying your council tax by cash if they even accept that anymore.
This is why I roll my eyes at boycotters sometimes because it's a convenient larp, talk to me when you manage to disconnect yourself from society Amnish style but I bet even they have bank accounts that they pay into for tax purposes unless they've got some kind of deal setup with their local government.
I have heard that you can bring cash to an IRS office to pay tax.
How long is that going to be the case though? Thanks for the information, but they're trying to force everybody to go digital for a reason. Not being a doomer on this point, just being a programmer like many other people in the tech field I can see which way the chips are landing. You're practically needing a phone in some cases now to even use certain services and apps because they don't provide desktop options. I know for example my bank requires it for their 2factor to work because they send you an code via SMS and you need this code to log in sometimes.
I think the US is slightly better about protecting the right to use cash than the EU is, but not much.
Oddly, or at least surprisingly to me, it seems Japan is much more cash oriented.
I'm fully expecting it to be gone sooner or later. Chinese-style social credit / social control is too tempting for authoritarians.
As bad as it will be initially, because it's run by a bunch of boomers and programmers on contract who aren't very good ( Probably Indians on the lowest payroll possible ) it's going to be hilarious seeing how quickly it all falls apart. They're trying to hype it up now, but all these poorly designed and overly fancy instruments are going to fail and it is going to cause absolute chaos when they implement it. Not only because of sabotage by a disgruntled public but general incompetence too. Imagine how bad of an idea it is having so much of your infrastructure and security requiring a constant stream of electricity and internet connections and you get the idea.
The boycott LARP is ultimately cowardly. It's trying to avoid the dirty work of seizing power.
Yes and no, it depends on the boycotting, I mean granted I've just been ranting about London and I am now going to actively refuse to go anywhere near that shithole no matter what as if I didn't need enough of a reason. I feel like a true secessionist movement that basically told the local government to go fuck itself would do far more than any kind of uprising. We've all seen ranches etc. where that kind of shit goes down, the boomer style spergfest is just a fast way to get yourself killed and I don't want to see more of that than we've got already.
It is I grant you though ultimately pointless to boycott anything if you've got no alternative and also government can just fuck you up anyway regardless of whether you say yes or no. It's going to take a whole community getting pissed off about something for any real change to happen and we're simply not seeing that yet.
Control of the government is a must though. There is no escape from it. So much of the right wastes political energy on avoiding that confrontation.