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> banks cannot refuse basic accounts to legal EU residents (unless they believe you're laundering money or financing terror groups). This is little comfort if
by jstanley 8y ago
> banks cannot refuse basic accounts to legal EU residents (unless they believe you're laundering money or financing terror groups).
This is little comfort if you're not a legal EU resident, or if they believe you're laundering money or financing terror groups (whether you actually are or not).
As long as there are any caveats to "cannot refuse bank accounts to all people" then switching to a cashless society would create an underclass of people who are just not allowed to have money.
- the8472 8y agoNot being a resident means you are the resident of a different country, so the assumption is that you have a bank account there. And being illegal or a suspected terror financer would already put you in an underclass anyway.
- theonemind 8y agoThe assumption that everyone has a country causes problems for people who actually don't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness
- nothrabannosir 8y agoThe problem is rarely the intention of a law, rather than the imperfections of its application. Governments are quite imperfect, and humans are a varied bunch. There are exceptions to everything , and exceptions to that. The Windrush generation is just a recent example that comes to mind: luckily, they were numerous enough to get their story heard. But people fall through such cracks every single day. Sometimes an imperfection in the law, sometimes an “overzealous” public servant.
- mnbvkhgvmj 8y agoAren't Windrush citizens still being deported? Have any of the deportees been allowed to return yet?