At the moment with Credit Card companies, American Express and Discover can do all the the same things MasterCard and Visa can do, and they aren't actively controlling the monetary system and forcing policy changes at companies.
This means using your CC like a debit card instead of waiting to pay off charges with a minimum balance. Amex also happens to allow checking accounts, so if you want, you can literally just get a debit card from them.
Many merchants (like Steam and GOG) allow you to make gift card / wallet purchases where they'll hold the money. If you know you're gonna spend $200 in games a year, save the money and make a block purchase ahead of time so you don't have to keep sending processing fees to MC & Visa.
You should have some amount of crypto that you are using as an investment, or that you can use to pay for items. You can just transfer money over to the crypto when you want to use it, and just use it within a short time span, like a few days. Crypto is volatile, but it's not that volatile that you can't use it in the same day or week.
You should still know how to write checks for legal purposes, but checks can still be used as acceptable payment for many things, especially anything official.
Additionally, you should still be using cash quite significantly, and you should be making sure to have a block of cash saved in a safe in your house for emergencies.
For long term saving you should still consider gold & silver, even if it's "Vault Gold" which I can go over at another time.
You ought to do all of these, but you should really consider doing at least one of these to weaken the power of these institutions.
So how does any of this get a payment FROM steam if you are forbidden from using banks? You know, the problem the developer was having in the first place.
he wasn't having problems not using banks. His problem is that the government fully debanked him with Credit regulations. That means you have no other choice but gold and cash.
His situation is far worse than just "don't use paypal"
At the moment with Credit Card companies, American Express and Discover can do all the the same things MasterCard and Visa can do, and they aren't actively controlling the monetary system and forcing policy changes at companies.
This means using your CC like a debit card instead of waiting to pay off charges with a minimum balance. Amex also happens to allow checking accounts, so if you want, you can literally just get a debit card from them.
Many merchants (like Steam and GOG) allow you to make gift card / wallet purchases where they'll hold the money. If you know you're gonna spend $200 in games a year, save the money and make a block purchase ahead of time so you don't have to keep sending processing fees to MC & Visa.
You should have some amount of crypto that you are using as an investment, or that you can use to pay for items. You can just transfer money over to the crypto when you want to use it, and just use it within a short time span, like a few days. Crypto is volatile, but it's not that volatile that you can't use it in the same day or week.
You should still know how to write checks for legal purposes, but checks can still be used as acceptable payment for many things, especially anything official.
Additionally, you should still be using cash quite significantly, and you should be making sure to have a block of cash saved in a safe in your house for emergencies.
For long term saving you should still consider gold & silver, even if it's "Vault Gold" which I can go over at another time.
You ought to do all of these, but you should really consider doing at least one of these to weaken the power of these institutions.
So how does any of this get a payment FROM steam if you are forbidden from using banks? You know, the problem the developer was having in the first place.
he wasn't having problems not using banks. His problem is that the government fully debanked him with Credit regulations. That means you have no other choice but gold and cash.
His situation is far worse than just "don't use paypal"