Take the Cash Challenge, pledge to use cash in your lives as much as possible.
Protect your remaining freedoms.
Digital totalitarianism woont create jobs, it destoys them. Its being hyped as the new ElDorado but its promises are false and its goal is to entrap heir property, all humanity, in debt. And they want a cut of all transactions. In a warld where everyone is controlled by the government and on the dole. Suppose you have income and dont report it. They fully plan to ruin your life if you do that. But make no mistake, they are taking the means stupid people just assume will be accessible to them forever, like working, (despite the fact that most of the rest of the world would do that job for less, in many cases, MUCH less..
Don't fall for it. The next few years will involve the largest losses of jobs ever seen in human history.
Read up on Moore's Law and its implications. If you think any particular job is immune, tell me about it. I bet its closer to being automated than you thought, even in your wildest dreams. Politicians really have no clue. Where will the jbs and incomes for all America come from? Not from employment because the corporations see us as too expensive. They want to trade us in for something new, and disposable. Which is another huge mistake, because they are stringing their new workforce along on promises they could and likely would never keep.
India is moving towards a system that seems a bit scary, especially in how it may lead to illiteracy becoming more common in the biggest country in the world
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNr2t-6Ab7E
Narcissists hate nothing more than needing anybody. But the fact is, for once, a generation enabled changes so valuable and so helpful that they absolutely cannot toss our workers away. Like they want to.
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Not only do I use cash as often as possible
but I also still mail in checks to pay the bills. The internet is not the answer to a system that wasn't broken.
Amazon wasn't needed, MSFT is shit. Monopolies are illegal but we don't enforce the Sherman Anti Trust Act
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
If you still use banks and web pages you are not using cash.
Cash means paper money or coins. Cash is not "dirty" People dont get the plague from it. They created that whole scare campaign.
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CashChallenge
The Challenge
Those who take part make a commitment to increase the fraction of their expenses that they pay in cash and to work on getting others to participate – in personal conversations, via social media, newsletters, lectures or letters to the editor. In this way, we want to ensure that no further decrease in cash usage can be reported, but rather an increase.
Then the opponents of cash can no longer feed us their narrative that the disappearance of cash is a natural, inevitable development, as opposed to development they are actively working to bring about.
If we use our wallets in droves to send this powerful message, to show how important cash is to us as a bulwark against total financial surveillance, it will make an impression in the media and in politics. If we join forces in this way, our political representatives will realize that they can lose votes not only if they would actively demand cash restrictions, but also if they kept turning a blind eye to the policy of a thousand pinpricks against cash users – and that they can win votes if they take a stand against this policy.
Background
Cash-users are being belittled as old-fashioned and hostile to progress. “The enemies of cash are trying to make us believe that the path to the cashless future is a natural development because convenient new technologies are gaining ground. Not a word that banks and governments are doing everything they can to make cash uncomfortable, expensive, and suspicious. In this way, they bring about a decrease in the use of cash and use this in turn to say: “The public’s love affair with cash is slowly but steadily cooling.” This narrative must be counteracted with the strong political statement that an increase in the use of cash would send.
Cash is Convenient and Cheap
A huge PR campaign is trying to make us believe that cash is old-fashioned, impractical, expensive, dirty, polluting and what else. However, the Deutsche Bundesbank published an investigation in February 2019 proving that at the point of sale cash is still the fastest and cheapest means of payment. Up to amounts of 100 euros, cash payments are significantly faster on average than card payments. Up to amounts of 50 euros, cash is also cheaper for merchants in full cost accounting than card payments.
Statistics on the Use of Cash
The Bundesbank collects statistics on the share of different payment methods as a percentage of all expenses every three years (excluding recurring expenses such as rent, ancillary costs, etc.)
In 2017, the cash share was 47.5% of the total volume, which was less than half for the first time. That was a good 10 percentage points less than in 2008. Measured by the number of payment transactions, the proportion of cash was 74.5%, a good 8 percentage points less than in 2008. If at least 50% of the volume and 75% of the transactions was reached the next time the Bundesbank collects the statistics, I would consider the #CashChallenge a success.
Political Demands
I invite citizens to demand from their representatives that they work for:
Germany (and other countries) withdrawing from the G20’s anti-cash alliance “Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion”.
German governement-owned development agency giz no longer providing secretarial services to the anti-cash organization “Alliance for Financail Inclusioon”,
the German government (and others) not giving money and support any more to the anti-cash-organization Better Than Cash Alliance,
the EU reversing its directive, according to which customs officers can confiscate any small amount of cash when crossing the border, simply on the basis that something seems suspicious to them,
requiring all public offices to accept the legal tender cash, without additional costs or disadvantages for the citizens,
the withdrawal of the absurd EU regulation No. 1210/2010, which imposes on the banks to check all (!) accepted coins for counterfeiting, which makes cash services unnecessarily expensive for businesses,
the withdrawal of harassing anti-money laundering rules for banks dealing with small and medium-sized cash transactions,
a ban on banks to impose costs on cash payouts to their own depositors,
a reversal of the EU-regulation that prohibits merchants from passing on card costs to card-using customers.
I’m trying to do that more often
I have been since the closing down, but I should have been doing it after reading about how the PTB wanted a cashless society. The thing is that whatever the PTB wants instigated is never aimed at the current generations, but the upcoming ones. Kids these days love to pay stuff with their phones.
Again this is something I thought I’d be dead before it went into effect, but alas I don’t think I’ll out live the many things that are coming. One thing I did do was close my bank account with chase. I opened an online account with ING, but they’ve since sold out to chase. ING paid great interest while it was it. I also use a credit union.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
It's a trap general Akbar!
It's old data, but according to card industry figures people who pay with cards spend 30% more than people who pay in cash. This is before interest.
Retailers having to pay a 1 1/2% transaction fee raise their prices 5% to compensate.
Then there's Biden's asinine $600+ reporting reg. This is obviously intended to prevent people (gig workers) from hiding cash transactions from the IRS.
On to Biden since 1973