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But...isn’t paying cash desirable?
“But...isn’t paying cash desirable?”
Absolutely.
[Note, however, that individual bills are serialized and thus very trackable by the Deep State, should they desire.]
This was originally born out of an attempt to protect cashiers during the COVID pandemic. Not handling cash and/or providing change increases their protection. LOL!
Not if you’re big business or government.
For them, it is ideal if you are cashless.
Easier to manipulate you, total control/insight over your behavior and actions. It’s easy for someone to join Amazon Prime, pay for an anti-virus software with an annual automatic reoccurring reenrollment and then forget about it. People lose track of how much they spend. There are built in fees for the vendors that are hidden from the customer but end up in the final total cost (i.e. ~3%) which the banks make... Of course the IRS/”gubbermint” loves electronic everything for obvious reasons.
I think this is actually a good thing. Making folks accept cash as “legal tender.”
If we allow merchants to go cashless, we are really allowing banks and merchants to decide what the currency of the nation is. In that sense, no differently than when our nation was being founded and you had every state making it’s own money, or private groups and citizens even printing currency, this would be a step backward, albeit the banks and some merchants today will disagree. LOL
Agree if you do not want to be tracked.
I have had a personal rule for 40 years that for anything under $300, I pay in cash at all stores. Which means those ba$tards have no idea what I’m smoking, drinking, eating, reading, gasoline, movies, music, entertainment, medications, sporting events that I’m consuming. Surveillance freaks take a flying leap at yourself.
Especially since it's legal tender. Meaning legal.