Posted on 07/10/2018 9:29:06 AM PDT by C19fan
Cashless? Oh hell no. I REFUSE to surrender total power and oversight over my money and what I spend it on to the government or hackers or anybody else. It’s none of their damn business if I want to buy some things that cannot be tracked and I can’t be cut off from access to my money with s keystroke.
If they take my cash, I will still have pre-1964 silver.
Chase was a corrupt scumbag.
Yes they have.....and I had the immense satisfaction of closing my account with Bsnk of America just this past Saturday as a result....AND telling them exactly why I as a 10+ year customer would no longer do business with them AND that I would tell everybody I knew not to do business with Bank of America.
They didn’t look too happy when I told them that “rolling over for New York politicians has costs” as I got up and left.
Cash should be always be available:
Cash is valuable after the hurricane or tornado hits and the power is down for weeks or months.
Want to eat and feed your family? Hand over all your guns and we will turn your credit card on again.
As I alluded to before, the technological capability may be there, but technology has limitations and vulnerabilities such as electric grid failure, local power outages, natural disasters, etc. What about the EMP explosive vulnerability we have all heard about? What about hackers taking the system down? Sure, it’s doable on one level, but the reality is that it places the populace at great risk when things don’t go quite as planned, and there are plenty of ways for it to go bad and hurt a whole lot of people.
The Smart play is not to roll over and accept it, but to resist the lunacy. . . and believe me, it is totalitarian lunacy.
And the scary part is that they can at any time decide to apply an anal probe to your life and look at everywhere you've been for the past year or possibly more, and yet the supreme court came one vote short just this year of saying that this is a-ok even without a warrant. The feckless liberals on the court saved our bacon on that one. Made me sick to have to agree with them, and disagree with Thomas.
Cashless society is a society waiting for a tyrant to take over and and enforce his tyranny by simply flipping the switch on your credit card.
It will be used to coerce people into actions which are antithetical to freedom.
Exactly. My first question in such an instance would be, "then how do you pay all the illegal aliens you have working for you?"
Black markets funded with items not money. Sadly by then they will be able to watch everyone. Chinese claim to have recognition software that can identify anyone anywhere. We shall see I guess.
I am not promoting any of this stuff just what I see coming, not in my lifetime but come it will.
All the problems you foresee will not matter in the end, cash will disappear, because it has to.
I'm sorry, I read that wrong.
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