How will all the illegals get paid?
How many neighbor’s kids still mow lawns???
- Tickets from a scalper for a sports event.
I will not participate in a cashless society. There will always be a currency of privacy in a free society. When you have no economic privacy then you are no longer free.
We will lose all anonymity. If we are cashless and everything is on a credit card or debit card transaction somewhere, it will be possible for marketers and government to compile very detailed dossiers on how you spend your money.
Ability to buy prepper stuff off the radar?
Without the ability to use cash, there will be ZERO anonimity with our personal lives. Over time, virtually everything about us can be tracked by someone.
The big .gov people on both sides of the aisle will just LOVE it. The ability to track everyone, and tax the hell out of us at the same time. THIS should be worth taking to the streets over. Of course, they’ll find ways of doing it little by little, so the frogs won’t know they’re being ‘boiled’....
scanning payments through your phone.
Cash doesn't exist because governments create it.
It exists because people like to use it.
Government can no more command a "cashless" society than it can command a "teetotaler" society.
How do you put some cash in a birthday card? Or on a wedding or anniversary money tree gift? How would you save your change? Change is about the only way I have a savings account. Its ridiculous that people will take what they perceive as the easy way without realizing the dangers of it. The mysterious “they” wipes out your accounts, you prove you have an account when there are no records, since not only are the young going cashless, they are not keeping records, instead trusting the internet and those who have monitor their virtual funds.
the Swiss Franc, has a 1000 note. (over a thousand $)
the Euro has a 500. (almost $600)
seems good enough for me
And I thought things were bad when nickel-copper alloys replaced silver in coinage.
If cash disappeared in the U.S. economy, I would do business using a foreign currency even right here in the U.S. Canadian cash is probably the most practical currency to use for cash transactions, since it is very stable and I could use it here in North America.
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I tip for good service at restaurants with cash. Call me superstitious, but I’ve never put tips on the credit card. If waiters/waitresses must “share” their tips, then cash gives them an option. I’m not really sure how they feel, but that’s what I do.
Like it or not, facial recognition software already has or soon will, identify every single American citizen. With a couple mouse clicks, the government will be able to see where you were and at what time. If you were driving down I-95 south at 9:32 am in the Greenwich, CT area, the government will see that. If you stroll into a Best Buy at 10:23am and purchase an electronics devices with cold, hard cash, the government will see that too. And they will probably be able to read off the serial numbers of the cash you paid with and will be able to track the origins of the cash as well.
It's either coming soon or it's already here.
Those who feel safe paying cash - they have a false sense of security.
When I was a kid my parents would give me an allowance of about $5 a week if I did my chores etc. Also I worked for my dad in his construction business before I turned 16, he paid me through the payroll, but I immediately cashed the checks since I didn’t have a bank account.
That taught me the value of money like nothing else, being able to physically see it, and see how quickly it disappears. A cashless society would be devastating to this country.
It’s all about tracking everything.