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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Mark 8:18 King James Version (KJV)
18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not?...
Good one. I am reminded of something similar in Revelation.
A very late night / early morning BTTT
“...He said the first prototype could be implanted in a person by the end of next year...”
https://reason.com/2019/07/02/hong-kong-protests-show-dangers-of-a-cashless-society/
Hong Kong Protests Show Dangers of a Cashless Society
Oh I checked, the BofA down south is not only GONE
but the last drive up ATM is now GONE too.
Looks like a brass plate over the “wall ATM” hole. (I didn’t get out of the car).
May have been gone for even longer since the real estate sign is up. Full BofA building, too. 3 lanes (plus a passing lane). Parking front, rear and side.
It probably has been shut down for 6 months to a year now.
At least.
Nice takeaway from the article:
“Allowing cash to die would be a grave mistake. A cashless society is a surveillance society.”
People always say, “Well, if you’re not doing anything wrong you don’t have anything to worry about!”.
Sure. Be sure to vote the way we want you to. Be sure to accept our morals, whatever they are. If we say men can become women and vice-versa, be sure to be on board. What’s that? You bought ammo? You believe in the right to defend yourself against crime?
Other articles on cashless society - but they want you to pay - which kinda takes away your anonymity by putting you on another list. Not that your browsing history wouldn’t be able to be known.
How about that...
I just returned from the barborshop where I paid in cash. I will likely not have another cash transaction for weeks when I must pay for another hair cut.
For the most part, cash is simply not required and in fact in many places is a burden on both the customer and the vendor.
I like it, but that’s just me. Rare when I have it these days.
Pretty much everything is on a card, one way or another.
One of these days there won’t be a choice.
A bump from an older thread
“Mark Zuckerberg Teases AI ‘Brain Chip’—But It Will Be Different Than Elon Musk’s”
https://observer.com/2019/10/mark-zuckerberg-ai-brain-chip-elon-musk-neuralink/
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