I've never seen one. But it's rare when I even see a $20 these days.
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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In such a world, the government can paralyze you by freezing your access to accounts. Now you’re hungry, travel-restricted and worrying about losing your residence until you comply.
Instead of Amazon saying they won’t sell the books, the government can say you aren’t allowed to buy X from anywhere.
True.
Social justice / diversity statements are increasingly a requirement to work, mandated during your performance review.
[In such a world, the government can paralyze you by freezing your access to accounts. Now you’re hungry, travel-restricted and worrying about losing your residence until you comply.]
Eventually, it will be:
“Take the Mark, citizen. You DO want to be able to buy and sell, right? You DO want to be a good citizen, right? It’s so convenient. Oh and safe. You know ‘peace and security’ is what our new messiah wants for everyone. Sure he’s the spawn of Satan (basically). But he’s so cool! Will that be right hand or forehead? You don’t want us to cut off your head, do you citizen?”
I always felt that the purpose of going cashless was so the government could keep track of your money supply to make sure you don’t cheat on your IRS taxes.
Control, my FRiend. Control.
BTW, your post was 66 of 66.
Heh
Revelation 16:2 (KJV)
And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
I know what it’s like to not participate in the economy.
The Obama years basically buried me (thanks W! too).
Some choice. Live, and die constantly in eternity.
Die, and live for ever in eternity.
The only logical choice will be to refuse the Mark of the Beast.
And then shall be Great Tribulation, such as never was, no nor ever shall be....
Any liberals that get a $20 like that, send it to me. I’ll take away the bad money for you.
“The snowflake generation seems especially ready for the Mark. They don’t see the danger....”
They know all about gadgets but not the Bible. I bet some would be impressed at how close it comes to what is happening.
“I daresay most of us expect cash to disappear.”
Many years ago we saw this coming when banks aggressively pushed the use of ATM’s instead of going into a bank to interact with a human to get or deposit money.
Of course it allowed banks to use fewer employees and thus save overhead costs.
Many people saw that as the main reason but that was just a side effect of the cards that did not require cash to be used.
Cards for purchases, and the chips, of course are an excellent way to keep watch over us as the gov has access to all spots we use cards.
It’s all about control...
Unless a person is doing something illegal or embarrassing, I have no idea why they carry cash***
I know people that never carry cash
I encourage them to always have some with them just in case.
I don’t like to purposely allow myself to be tracked, so in some places I will not use a card
I do use them just to make the beast happy, so they think they know where I am all the time.
[They know all about gadgets but not the Bible.]
That is correct. Liberal seminaries and general disdain has all but marginalized the Scripture for many.
[ I bet some would be impressed at how close it comes to what is happening. ]
That’s but one reason I try to mix tech articles with the Scripture. As well as news articles with the Scripture.
Hoping that it makes people aware of how things just keep right on marching down the line.
It’s certainly no accident that Iran is constantly in the news. (Gog Magog of Ezekiel 38). Latter Days and Latter Years it says (in the KJV).
My first “official” I/T job there were 3 interesting developments in my first 6 months to one year there:
1) I wrote a CICS program and accompanying JCL / COBOL to take over data entry - shift it from 2 people doing it on card-punch machines (which were quickly fading) to give the users direct access to key their own data (internal customers).
2) Another person in my department, we started the same day and car-pooled once in awhile, was working on the new MICR-ecoding check machines. There was a test machine set up in the department. She would often be working with it until we left (sometimes after hours).
3) There was a functioning ATM, on a pallet, outside my cubicle. It was a talking ATM (speaking instructions) to the ATM customer. I used to hear it all day long - about 2-1/2 feet from my right ear. It was tested for about 6 months but they were never implemented AFAIK (as least not in my area).
This is the mid-1980’s.
[Of course it allowed banks to use fewer employees and thus save overhead costs.]
BofA just down the road from me got rid of ALL of their drive-up tellers at least 3 years ago.
ALL the tube machines, tubing - GONE. Blinds have been over the big windows ever since. Employees park in the lanes where customers use to drive-thru (5 lanes I believe maybe 4 - I’ll take another look when I go by and see if I can count them).
The BofA out south still had a drive-up teller (2 lanes). Those were eventually shut down and employees terminated or sent elsewhere.
The ATM in the building was ripped out and the hole covered, BION, with plywood. The whole building as a BofA was completely shut-down around a year ago. It’s a ghost town now.
There was ONE (1) ATM there. Since I had to close my accounts (no money so I was gonna get hit with fees) I hadn’t been there in awhile. AFAIK, the last remaining ATM is no longer there. When I’m out south, I’ll take another look.
And then there’s the Global Tracking Device, I mean “the cellphone”.
Many people think changing their number helps. It doesn’t. Except from maybe old marketing data.
The ID of your cellphone is wrapped up in two numbers (IIRC). These are located on the original box, on a label. Maybe three numbers(?) - Dunno. (One of my boxes has 3 numbers but as I recall - two sets of numbers show up in the phone - something like “MEIN” for one of them).
ANYWAYS, these are the true “calling cards” of your phone - these days located on the chip (maybe always).
I reactivated an old Tracfone (now out of service). I called them - they sent me a new chip for FREE - just had to give them a mailing address so they could send out a new chip - which, BTW, they sent for FREE via quick service (like FedEx but another carrier).
Of course, the new numbers are on that chip and they show up when you access your phone’s digital identity.
Your phone number, even if it’s changed 10 times, is always tied to those numbers (as long as your phone doesn’t go too far out of service).
“The snowflake generation seems especially ready for the Mark. They don’t see the danger”
So many of them are into jumping right into all the new techbnology as it comes out.
Banking on a phone seems stupid to me.
Orgs that deal in monetary things in any manner are always trying to get people to get their “app” to make things easy for them.
And most people leave the traking app on all the time on their phone.
It’s called location
Google is always telling me with a pop-up to turn on my location or maps won’t work.
I can use maps without the location turned on
Shhh, don’t tell them
Actually I am fully aware I can be tracked even with location turned off
Plus they can listen to all things said within range of a mic on any device.
And see. That’s why many ppl cover the “all seeing eye” (called the camera lens pointing [right at us btw]) on their laptops and tablets etc
And even if the phone turned off.
I have a friend who went to a website and soon had her picture sent to her. I advised her to cover the camera lenz on her laptop.
Yup
They are fast to make sure we are tracked
Good name for a phone or tablet: GTD - Global Tracking device.
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