BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN! The war on cash is extremely boring. Mostly because, just like drugs, it is entirely ineffective at stopping anything at all. Peopl

BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN! The war on cash is extremely boring. Mostly because, just like drugs, it is entirely ineffective at stopping anything at all. People will always find a way to acquire for things that they need. Through bartering or straight up theft, you cannot stop anything from happening by precluding payment for said activity. But politicians and law makers will always sound the bugle of public safety because fear is such a strong emotion and much easier to evoke than love. At this point, I am not even sure they are even attempting to be relevant, instead they just need to look busy and demonstrate their worth. But this article goes further, to probe a global-government-backed-conspiracy to track payments and keep down the common man by removing cash. When the truth is probably more simple (this time), cash is expensive and harder to control. Plus most of us use digital payments anyways. In countries that are removing large denomination cash bills because they are only used by criminals.. that's an interesting development. but not entirely dishonest. Countries who are removing low denomination bills in favor of larger ones do so to fight inflation. But there is no global war on cash. However, there is a global war for your personal data by major corporations and that's what should be scaring most people. Your transactions aren't protected from corporations using data to identify and silo you. Amazon Go, convenient, sure. But let's not pretend that their sales funnel won't adjust further based on what you buy in their stores. If you are buying self-help books from amazon.com, they are going to keep showing you self-help products such as other trending books, yoga mats, maybe a personal journal, or running shows. But if you also walk into an amazon go store and pick up m&ms and mountain dew, do you think those same ads will appear? Certainly not. And do you think any of that tracking is possible with cash? No, this isn't government trying to crush Joe the plumber. This is greedy corporations trying to sell you more shit.