[EBH]

The wallet can only be spent in registered businesses – registration is scheduled to start on October 1 and registered businesses are also expected to use the Thang Raj App, though the exact details are not yet available. According to the Commerce Ministry, 1.6m shops are eligible including 910,000 businesses under the Business Development Department, 146,000 blue-flag grocery stores and 5,000 blue-flag food shops (Nation 2024). Excluded are major retailers, wholesalers and department stores (Bergin and Jose 2024), with the emphasis on small and localised business, including road-side stalls and farms.

For the wallet user, spending must take place within 6 months of receipt, is restricted to their domicile district,[2] and cannot be spent on 18 specified items and services – including alcoholic drinks, tobacco products and lottery tickets.[3] These restrictions are built into the wallet, that is, the digital money it contains is programmed (Bangkok Post 2023a).

So their new digital wallet is only good for specified items in a persons "home district." This is going to be an interesting experiment in forcing or coercing desperate people to stay in their 15 minute city.

[EBH]

Are you desperate enough yet?

Thailand’s Digital Wallet Goes Live
https://gpilondon.com/publications/thailands-digital-wallet-goes-live

[BenLurkin]

These restrictions are built into the wallet, that is, the digital money it contains is programmedBut of course it is.

[DesertRhino]

You can use it to hire a hitman to go after WEF the tyrants who created it. Just hand him your digital wallet.

[PGR88]

Paying people to voluntarily enter servitude to the state.

[Gen.Blather]

Over the years I’ve had several renters who use their SNAP and welfare benefits for all of their expenses. They buy whatever they’re allowed to buy and then wholesale it for drugs, cash, alcohol, etc. Virtually everyone I’ve known did this with their benefits. I read a study that suggested the average item bought on welfare was an expensive luxury good. You can bet it’s for resale. I had an alcoholic, smoker renter who abandoned the house after the cops arrested her. The power was off, but the refrigerator was filled with THE most expensive and now rotted meat available. (I never buy anything for $25 per pound.) There was one blank space in fridge that had been filled with two cases of beer. She took that. Earlier, she’d told me she hadn’t had any solid food in months. Now, THAT’S an alcoholic. She explained how all of this worked because she wanted to pay me in steaks. I can’t pay a mortgage in steaks.

When a homicide detective called and demanded to know where she was, I said, “You had her last. Why didn’t you just hang on to her?” (Detectives don’t have a sense of humor.)

[hanamizu]

This reminds me of Huey Long’s Share Our Wealth plan. Everyone gets a payment that has to be spent within a given period of time.

[aquila48]

Did they say what magic tree the money comes from?

[butlerweave]

Giving you back some of your taxes and calling it cash payments ,LOL

[ViLaLuz]

Thailand?

[metmom]

Sounds like a trial run for the mark of the beast.