Paying in cash means I have to go to an actual store and talk to someone in person. No thank you
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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ATM's make pulling out cash an option without human interaction, plus there's exponentially less tracking possible. Seems like a win-win, especially when you take into account some banks are revoking the option to pull out cash.
What? Talking to a cashier is dreadful? That is why your againsh cash?
We have several stores that refuse to accept cash. A few weeks ago, we had a pretty harsh storm that knocked out power to major parts of the city for a little over a week. The area where these stores are was affected. All the stores next to them have always accepted cash. The surrounding stores continued to have business for that week, while those cash-deterrent stores had no business, and lost their edge (niche market, but they opened first in the area, so people knew them best). It's been weeks, and those stores still have not picked up foot traffic to levels before the blackout, and one just had a liquidation sale and will likely close soon. Cash should always be an option. Otherwise, we give up our independence from the supporting systems (electricity, internet, payment processors, etc.). On a side note, cash is a lot more private than card.
I recently learned that all governments participating in the Euro guarantee that business have to accept cash. Refusing it is a violation of the accords.
Perhaps start life from a place where a fellow human being isn't subhuman because they disagree with your views and this will be less of a thing
How do we get people to do that?
Start with quit voting for a duopoly of elites bent on sewing division in the population to further entrench themselves as modern day kings. There's no original ideas happening except the ones people are told to have by the closely controlled media they're bombarded with 24 7
Who cares. When you're right, your right. I am sure many "far right people" are against stealing from your grandma. Agreeing to this common sense moral is bad?
An very new alternative to cash are Goldbacks. Cash made of gold, designed to be inflation proof cash.