Posted on 03/27/2022 5:23:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber
When MasterCard and the United Nations have joined forces, you know bad news is on the horizon.
Auto manufacturers, companies, and governments increasingly have the power to track our every movement and prevent us from driving our own vehicles. Supposedly democratic governments can lock us down or even freeze our bank accounts on a whim (see also "Canada" and "Trudeau"). In this increasingly dystopian world, large multinational corporations are working hand-in-glove with said governments to reshape society in their preferred image, garden-variety citizens be damned.
To that end, MasterCard and the United Nations have joined forces to produce a credit card that measures your carbon footprint. Once you reach your "limit," you can't purchase anything else...at least with that card. Well, isn't that special? What's next? We may not want to know.
But perhaps I'm too cynical. What could be the downside?
Would it prevent the cardholder from purchasing, say, cigarettes? Put a cap on how much one could spend at a liquor store? If we were to try to order Glenn Beck's new book, The Great Reset, from barnesandnoble.com, would it generate a message like "incorrect purchase, authorization not allowed"? If we wanted to use it to pay for our subscription to the New York Post, would a pop-up notice appear saying, "Transaction disallowed, inappropriate material!"?
I guess the consumer had best read the fine print on the cardholder agreement: "This card not authorized for transactions at Chick-fil-A, Hobby Lobby, and certain other retailers ..." [I jest.]
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I predict bad results for Mastercard.
They can shove that card up their collective, very smelly Obamaholes.
And then light it.
The whole idea of “carbon footprints” is fiction.
We should never have let notions like this get off the ground in the first place. - carbon footprint; gender fluidity, etc..
how much carbon footprint from burning these cards.
VISA will follow I guess. Can’t get much done with cash these days.
AMEN! I do not know what a ‘carbon footprint’ is, and I couldn’t possibly care less.
Dump their stock and card, now.
Just some silly virtue signaling card for libtards to show each other. “I care”.
Russianing the Western true liberals with new forms of social credit scores to establish permanent financial control.
I still want a Jubilee. Cancel all the debts. All of it. That will kill the Central Bankers and people like MasterCard. They are not on our side.
It will cause disruption, sure. But we are slaves to a debt of $300 Trillion or so. It will never be repaid, but as long as we pretend that it will be, we need to swim in this ocean of debt in which MasterCard tells us what we are allowed to do.
Woking Out
Yep. It's coming, and with a swiftness nobody could've predicted.
Cash will be useless. Sure, it says "Legal Tender" right on the bill but so what? Doesn't mean anything if the grocery store clerk or the gas station attendant says, "Sorry, we can't accept cash. We don't have any change. Card only." What are you gonna do?
“When MasterCard and the United Nations have joined forces...”
Shouldn’t the UN be trying to get the Russians out of Ukraine?
I’m giving it my best shot though.
I started using the debt card more recently, but have since decided that I don’t want to leave that much of a paper trail and so am purchasing with cash.
Yeah, I know. Surveillance cameras are everywhere, but if they are going to try to track me, they will have to work for it. I’m not going to make it easy for them.
If you’re buying anything with a credit card, you can’t afford it…
I use credit cards all the time, for the rewards. The card is paid off every month..
“If you’re buying anything with a credit card, you can’t afford it…”
...problem there is car rentals, hotel, travel, online purchases. Otherwise, yes. You can’t afford it.
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