Cash is much more widely used in the US and I hope that it stays that way. I have cards, but still use cash for about half of my purchases....especially gasoline, which is priced cheaper if you pay with cash (in many places).
It amazes me how many people will put their faith in computers and the internet. I guess it’s because I’m older and remember before everything was computerized.... but I still don’t entirely trust them to always work.
At the beginning of the computer age....when they really started computerizing everything, we were told not to worry, that there would always be paper backups in case of computer failure.
Now they can’t even keep the power on without them......
My thoughts exactly - the more they push this nonsense especially limiting the amount of things people can buy, the more it will lead to other forms of barter so they will have LESS visibility, not more, into what each particular person is buying. What prevents me from trading my monthly allowance of four hamburgers to someone's allowance of t-shirts? We can just swap physical items. Not to mention other forms of trading (coins, alcohol, ammo, etc). Extremely inconvenient, but it will inevitably happen rendering the whole thing useless. For some reason, they seem to be intent on recreating USSR just with "them" in control
Happening widely in Australia as well (of course). We have resorted to ringing the police when the banks do not give us our money because this is essentially an act of theft.
Tyranny comes by turning screws a quarter turn at a time.
Exactly.
Resistance is all one can do; resistance is all one must offer.
But you know, all of those bank requirements don’t even slow down Hunter and his family. Or the Clintons or the other crooks.
Oh, since I avidly consume the NYT on this issue, how would I know anything about this vile Russian disinformation?
Jokes (if only) aside, it shows how far the rule of law is gone.
Cash is much more widely used in the US and I hope that it stays that way. I have cards, but still use cash for about half of my purchases....especially gasoline, which is priced cheaper if you pay with cash (in many places).
Yeah, keep doing so.
Here in Norway, cash is almost gone…and now we're seeing the early signs of the whirlwind to come.
As an aside, 7yo can get cards for pocket money…we're having quite a hard time getting our hands on cash to hand out pocket money to the kids.
It amazes me how many people will put their faith in computers and the internet. I guess it’s because I’m older and remember before everything was computerized.... but I still don’t entirely trust them to always work.
At the beginning of the computer age....when they really started computerizing everything, we were told not to worry, that there would always be paper backups in case of computer failure.
Now they can’t even keep the power on without them......
Same with 'smart' bombs: show me one computer owner whose machine never died on him or her, and I'll believe the hype.
He's wrong though: it isn't his money.
Once the money is in the bank, what you've got is an IOU from the bank (your balance). The actual money belong to the bank.
This is why you could be paid in cash in many places, only 40 years ago, if you asked for it: that way, the money was all yours, not the bank's.
My thoughts exactly - the more they push this nonsense especially limiting the amount of things people can buy, the more it will lead to other forms of barter so they will have LESS visibility, not more, into what each particular person is buying. What prevents me from trading my monthly allowance of four hamburgers to someone's allowance of t-shirts? We can just swap physical items. Not to mention other forms of trading (coins, alcohol, ammo, etc). Extremely inconvenient, but it will inevitably happen rendering the whole thing useless. For some reason, they seem to be intent on recreating USSR just with "them" in control
Happening widely in Australia as well (of course). We have resorted to ringing the police when the banks do not give us our money because this is essentially an act of theft.