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 ...
Sounds great for business, is this optional?
Get the UN out of the US.
I use my American Express card exclusively. You pay the bill in full every month. That suggests you have a self imposed cap as you decide or suffer the consequences. Debt is a slave owner and you’re free to put yourself up on the block to be bought. You’ll be paying the slave owners for the rest of your days.
That would wipe everybody out. Careful what you wish for.
Undesirable product. A free market will deservedly destroy them.
(When MasterCard and the United Nations have joined forces, you know bad news is on the horizon.)
That’s for certain.
Will that be right hand?
Or forehead?
Amex, Discover. Just wait until they do away with cash and go digital, footprint control there as well.
>>They can shove that card up their...<<
Coming to a Visa card near you.
If you’re buying anything with a credit card, you can’t afford it…
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Not necessarily. The card allows one to purchase without a
lot of cash being carried around. The question becomes do
you pay it off each month or carry some purchases over? A
debit card allows for the same option.
Babylon Bee?
Darn. Wrong again!
Mr. New World Order himself
Baloney.
Only when you don't have the funds available to back up the purchase. fyi--credit card companies have a special name for those of us who pay the balance in full every month, thereby avoiding interest charges--we are Deadbeats! Go figure.
Cash Fridays fellas. Stop using plastic at least one day a week. Pass the word and kill the beast.
I suspect far too many in our country do not have a fiercely free and independent personality. The thought of a bank controlling what I do with my own damn money... that would not be my bank anymore.
I would do them the courtesy of giving them a loud and clear explanation of why I was leaving. Actually, that would be for my own benefit...
A wise bank would seize the opportunity of this story and commit to never doing what MasterCard proposes.
You are now dismissed - go back to your brainwashing
device - I mean 'widescreen TV'.
Carry on.
And remember to always endlessly and pointlessly
consume whatever you are told to consume.
Even if doing so may kill you or wreck your health or
impoverish you and place you into indentured servitude
for all eternity - or all of the above.
It is your only worth and purpose - I mean 'duty and joy' -
and the sole source of meaning in your fetid little
worthless existence."
Time to shower and dress and prepare to go grocery shopping -
so I may continue to consume mass quantities.
If you’re buying baloney with a credit card, you REALLY can’t afford it…
We paid both kid’s college tuition with MasterCard. Paid off at the end of the month. Reaped tons of air miles.
We put nothing on the charge card that can’t be paid off immediately in cash.
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