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WHAT WILL A CASHLESS SOCIETY MEAN?
THE PROS
CONVENIENCE — THERE WILL NO LONGER BE ANY NEED TO CARRY CASH AROUND
THE CONS
EVERY TRANSACTION YOU MAKE WILL BE TRACKED YOUR SPENDING HABITS CAN BE LINKED TO YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT
YOU WILL ONLY BE PERMITTED TO SPEND ON THINGS THE GOVERNMENT APPROVES OF. THINGS THAT ARE DEEMED TO BE LUXURIES — MEAT, FUEL, TRAVEL — CAN BE RESTRICTED
YOUR MONEY CAN BE PROGRAMMED WITH AN EXPIRY DATE — IF YOU DON’T SPEND IT BY A CERTAIN DATE, YOU’LL LOSE IT
THERE WILL BE NO ‘BLACK’ ECONOMY. IT WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE TO AVOID TAX, BUT THEN YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GIVE POCKET MONEY TO CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN AND NEITHER WILL YOU BE ABLE TO BORROW OR LEND MONEY TO FRIENDS WITHOUT THAT BEING TAXED BY THE GOVERNMENT
PARKING AND SPEEDING FINES WILL BE TAKEN AT SOURCE, WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF CHALLENGE AND POSSIBLY EVEN WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE
IF YOU PROTEST THE ACTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT, YOUR MONEY CAN BE SWITCHED OFF. IF YOU THINK THAT’S UNLIKELY, IT’S ALREADY HAPPENED TO TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CANADIANS WHEN THEY PROTESTED AND IT ALSO HAPPENED TO A BRITISH JOURNALIST
A CASHLESS SOCIETY MEANS THE END OF HUMAN FREEDOM
IF YOU WANT THAT, DO NOTHING
IF YOU DON’T, THE FIRST THING YOU MUST DO IS RESPOND TO THE GOVERNMENT’S PROPOSAL ON DIGITAL ID, UPON WHICH A CASHLESS SOCIETY MUST BE BASED
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/draft-legislation-to-help-more-people-prove-their- identity-online/consultation-on-draft-legislation-to-support-identity-verificat
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They grasped a small kernel of truth and encrusted a huge wad of nonsense around it. You already have to use credit for some transactions, effectively. If you try bringing 100k in cash to buy a car/house, there is a good chance it’ll get seized by police. Corporations already do that tracking and they don’t need credit card transactions for it - if you use a cell phone they know what store you went into. That can be combined with other metadata to know exactly what you’re doing. Carrying cash does not fix this.
Yeah, the clownvoy isn’t exactly something you want to use to prove a point.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/freedom-convoy-protest-how-did-we-get-here-1.5772901
To defend a liberty is to defend said liberty for your enemies. You cannot possibly be arguing its ok to restrict some peoples rights without the court ruling on it.
The courts literally were involved. Also, who was restricting rights? The clownvoy or the people in downtown ottawa? Hint it was the clownvoy.
Did the courts order that people would have their money disabled. If not thats denying someone their right to do as they wish with their private property. Also how can a court order somthibg like this dont u need to be charged with a crime first.
Why can’t I fucking drive my car on a sidewalk! The government is denying my right to do as I wish with my private property! Why can’t I make bombs at home! Fucking government!
We’ve only ever been allowed to do what we want with our stuff within reason, that is how society works.
And no you don’t need to be charged with a crime fist, for example a warrant is done before charges are laid. Civil forfeiture in the US is another great example of it.
There are laws against driving on the sidewalk. There is no law sayibg the governmwnt can disable ur money whenever they please. A warrant is granted to collect evidance in cases of reasonable suspicion. Civil forfeiture is often used for abuse of police powers and breaks the rule of innocent until proven guilty is that really what u wanna be basing ur argument on? A racist rule used by cops to abuse a system for their own financial gain while violating a fundamental human right. Nice one.
And there are laws about how protesting works and violating those laws has penalties. Yes a warrant requires evidence, and judge, that’s what I was saying, thank you for agreeing whth my point. I’m not saying civil forfeiture is just or good. But it is legal, and in your own words, there are law against driving on a side walk and civil forfeiture is legal. Nice one.
Monero fixes this. They are incredibly afraid of it, and they have every right to be.
Even if your monero wallet or account or whatever is firmly linked to your real identity?
That’s really not very doable since Monero acts as digital cash. Therefore, once you have it in Monero, you can spend it and they have no idea, you can lose it and they have no idea, or you can keep it and they have no idea. And you can move it around and they have no idea. So if they ask about it, you can very easily make the argument that you no longer have it unless they’re going to use force on you that is.
Curious how that will work when crypto was billed as untraceable, until it came out that it was in a manner of speaking.
There are two types of cryptocurrencies. There are transparency coins, and those are blockchains such as Bitcoin, where the receiver address, the sender address, and the amount are all known. Then there are privacy blockchains such as Monero, where the sender is one of 16 people currently. The receiver is unknown and the amount sent is unknown as well. This is the nightmare of governments all over the world.
Interesting!
