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Posted on 07/14/2019 11:03:35 PM PDT by SaveFerris
Gustaf can remember the precise date when he last used cash. 'It was October 7 last year,' he told me without hesitancy.
'I found an old note that I had forgotten about and used it to buy some sweets.'
Like many others at his university in Gothenburg, Sweden, Gustaf relies on cards and smartphones to spend money. 'None of us use cash – you just don't need it these days,' he said.
Card only: Sweden has become a cashless society so shoppers have switched to cards and smartphones
But there is one problem – a big one. The 20-year-old computer science student keeps losing his bank cards, along with others that swipe open electronic locks for his apartment, gym and lecture halls. 'I laugh about it but it is very inconvenient.'
So he plans to get a tiny microchip, scarcely bigger than a grain of rice, injected into his hand which he says will make life easier as well as being 'cool and futuristic' – following the lead of at least 4,000 other Swedes as their country hurtles into a brave new world without hard cash.
They have chips inserted under their skin – usually above the thumb – to pay for their coffees and bus and train travel, waving a hand across payment machines as if using a contactless card.
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Well that’s kinda Biblical...
“Paper money is anonymous”
Paper money is serialized. It could easily be scanned and tracked at each transaction.
Spy on you?
How about fleece your savings and leave you a slave to the State?
One word, the globalists and globalism
One word, the globalists and globalism
“I’m sick when I think of my 401 and how its not really mine because I’ll get creamed when I take it out....”
You don’t take it all at once, you draw enough supplement your SS and you will hardly be taxed at all.
“....The 20-year-old computer science student keeps losing his bank cards, along with others that swipe open electronic locks for his apartment, gym and lecture halls....”
The careless suffer. He volunteered for a life where a vicious thief could cut off his thumb instead of picking a pocket.
President Trump should order them to be issued again.
They were stopped with an executive order by President Nixon.
An executive order should be able to re-start their reissue.
You will pay for this convenience! Now the government can monitor you, and do what it wants with your money!
We pay with cash about 95% of the time. If necessary (not enough cash on hand), we’ll use a credit card. I’ve never used a debit card — wouldn’t even know how to.
Just ditched my smart phone Android tracking device and cranked up my old Classic with BlackBerry OS. (I expect the SIM has some tracking features, but probably not as much.) No email ever on my phone.
I know you can’t fight it forever, but balking at it as long as possible is something I’ll do.
I read that in Buffalo, NY, or a suburb, you can’t pay to park without using a smart phone. How do elderly, non-tech, people deal with that? No cash.
It's not just about the smartphone. It's about the app. Boy, doesn't this open up more cans of worms. Just another reason never to set foot in Buffalo.
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And you'll still have no idea, right up to the moment that they freeze your accounts with the flick of a switch for Wrongthink, and posting on Free Republic.
I'm not attacking you personally, BTW.
I use cash as much as possible, because I was a database administrator in a previous life. ;-)
NYC lost power for just a few hours a couple days ago and they were freaking out. Imagine if they’d lost power for weeks and there was no “real cash” and no low skilled cashiers who understood how to count cash and give change to the few out of touch old pensioners who had cash on hand.
Muggers will have to carry hatchets to chop off hands.
If all these chipped humans have to do is wave they hands to make a purchase then there’s nothing stopping someone else using a device to scan every’s hand at the mall, the grocery store, the subway or just wandering down Main Street and become a millionaire in 10 minutes. The victims won’t know they’ve had their bank account depleted until they’re arguing with the Starbucks’ barista when they can’t pay.
Five years ago, Wells Fargo wanted my finger print to cash a relative’s little $20 check on a WF account. Finger print. $20. No bleepin’ way. That’s just one of the very long list why I will NEVER use WF.
I miss the days when bank tellers knew their customers by sight. No ID needed. No hassles. It takes me up to 45 minutes to deposit a $70 check. What’s my name. Spell it. Sign this. Drivers license. How do you spell it again? What’s your account number. No, we don’t show you have an account with us. You say you’ve banked here since you were a little kid but you’re not in our records. Wait and let me get a supervisor...
My bank handles things a little differently. No matter what question I have, they say: “We have an app. Have you used the app? The app will help you. Have you downloaded the app? You should use the app.”
I’ve told several people who work at the bank that their entire job seems to be to tell customers that customers are wasting there time coming to the bank, because the people who work at the bank can’t help them.
They don’t appreciate my point of view.
I’ve never used an ATM. Wouldn’t know how. Wouldn’t know my password. How many in NYC the other day couldn’t use one?
We don’t have a smart phone so guess I won’t be parking anywhere near NY.
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