Posted on 03/29/2016 5:47:01 AM PDT by rktman
Sweden seemed to be at the forefront of the newest globalist scheme digital money v. cash, advocating a cashless global economy with a one-world currency. A CBS World News article reported in 2012 that a small number of businesses in Sweden accepted only credit cards, including some churches, even though elderly people prefer cash, especially in rural areas.
Bjorn Ulvaeus, a former rocker, stated that cash encourages theft, citing his own son who was the victim of armed robbery three times. Cheating and cash theft may have declined in Sweden but cybercrime around the world is indisputably on the rise. Even though Sweden was the first European country to introduce bank notes in 1661, Ulvaeus would like Sweden to phase out cash altogether.
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Cash makes/keeps YOU the King.
Co-workers and family laugh at me for paying cash everywhere I go. They tell me that I’m “missing out” on all the “rewards” with these companies. I’m missing out on shitty customer service? I’m missing out on worrying about whether or not my payment went through on time? I ditched credit cards 10 years ago, and I have no regrets. I still don’t understand why people think they’re a necessity.
Makes things like the Cyprus ‘bail-in’ and negative interest rates MUCH easier.
Your money won’t be your own. The Communist dream of any money you keep being an ‘expense’ to the State and accessible by it, will finally come true.
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