Originally Posted by
DamianTV
There are some major problems with a Cashless Society.
PayPal already refuses to do any sort of transaction when a sale of a firearm is made. This is Corporate Subversion of the law. The ability to monitor every transaction enables banks to dictate the behaviors of people without actually changing the law on the books. Slippery slope. Without cash, do you think you can buy pot and not draw attention to yourself? But take it a step further, if its not just the Bank that gets to dictate your behaviors, but every busy-body out there. Are you fat? Yeah, $#@! you you fat $#@!, you are no longer allowed to purchase Bacon, or ANYTHING that said busy-bodies deem is "bad for you".
What happens when the POWER GOES OUT?
Natural disasters can cause major widespread damage and have a habit of knocking out power for extended periods of time. Earthquakes, fires, floods, blizzards, you name it. In the year 1861 we had a solar storm so massive that it crippled the electronics we barely had at the time. It was called The Carrington Event. I might be off on the year. Mostly it was telegraphs that were affected, but as a planet, were were not so dependant on electronics at the time. If we got hit by something similar to the Carrington Event today, it would be literally years before we could replace the damaged infrastructure and would most likely set us back to the stone age, for roughly a decade.
I'll agree that cash itself as we have it today is not so great. We have Fiat Currency, and it doesnt really matter if it is on paper or digital, any fiat currency will lose its value over time. I'll also acknowledge that both sides have benefits and risks. Walking around with a hundred grand in cash is not what an average person would consider to be smart. At the same time, putting your currency into a bank is just as much of a risk when, for some reason, the bank does not allow you to conduct transactions. Asset forfeiture. This has already happened in Greece, and very recently. Depositors were not allowed to touch or spend their own money. However, when you buy a house or a car, its usually safer to not have that quantity of currency in paper money. If thieves knew that more people walked around with large quantities of currency on them, it is an incentive for those thieves to violently take your money. Thats an argument the establishment will use against currency. Putting all your money in a bank and having to pay a Transaction Fee AND be charged for the bank holding your money causes that money to evaporate into confiscation by the bank. Both sides have ups and downs.
The real risk here is the Elimination of Choice.
When you have small quantities of currency in your pocket, you can buy what you want, where you want, and when you want. It isnt subject to anyone elses interference. The only two parties involved are the Buyer and the Seller. If cash is eliminated, that transaction will be between the Buyer, the Seller, and the Bank. Just like govt interference has ruined marriage, getting the third party out of the deal seems to be the best solution. In todays marriage, it is a binding contract, not between a man and a woman, but between a man, a woman, and the state. That is what the Rulers of society want. They want EVERY transaction to be subject to their approval.
When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will have freedom.
There may very well soon come a time that a very large portion of your daily activities are deemed illegal. The "victimless crime", such as modifying your car, having an "unauthorized mechanic" doing work on it, not purchasing DRM Coffee Pods for your Keurig Coffee Pot (that already exists), not purchasing HP Brand Printer Ink Replacement Cartridges when your printer runs out of ink, the list goes on and on, and the companies will claim to be the victims. You need to give them your money, which will be held by the bank. And its not just what you DO spend money on, but what you DONT as well. Didnt pay your mandatory health insurance premium? Subject to fine or imprisonment because youre now a criminal. Late on a bill? Debtors Prison.
People like myself just arent making it in day to day life. Im laid off, again, through no fault of my own, and finding a job is just as hard as it has been for the last several years. This means that I simply do not have the income to be able to afford all the bills. Blame the victim. Just get a job. The jobs that are available dont last very long and even if they did, dont pay well enough that people can afford basic necessities. To blame the victim, it should be my fault, or anyone of the 102.4 million working age people of the 330 million people in the US that dont have good paying jobs. Its their fault. They didnt get an education, despite jobs for the studied fields simply not existing. Hope like hell you dont have a Felony on your record cuz you will NEVER get legitimate work, at least in the US. If people did have decent paying jobs, maybe the catastrophic sequence of events that are unfolding wouldnt be quite as bad. As it stands, poverty is manufactured as an excuse to separate the poor from what little they have left. This causes people in poverty to suffer an even bleaker future because even more of what they have left will be confiscated by excuses of risk or by putting the needs of the businesses, banks and communities ahead of their basic need to eat.
It has become a Crime to be Poor. It will be an even more severe crime to be Poor and not submitting to Total Digital Currency Surveillance. End result as I see it: Societal Collapse and widespread death thru starvation.
$#@! a bunch of Digital Money.
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