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Governments don't even have to get involved, we are heading in the direction fo functional cashlessness by the influence of corporations and the market alone. H

Governments don't even have to get involved, we are heading in the direction fo functional cashlessness by the influence of corporations and the market alone. Hope you like incinerating fat cats to doom music, my friend.

mistrial9 4y ago
but you missed a crucial part -- the post says "pitchforks" but is made by a ninety-nine percent civilized person with manners and education, who is unlikely to actually do the physical act mentioned -- but in the modern day, will Very Likely remember this topic at voting time. Take-no-prisoners politics means that the losing candidate, really actually loses and is therefore out of a job right now. So these are high stakes for political types and they do know it. Sadly most American politicians on both sides of the aisle would probably vote for cashless right now, but, not all of them... and things do change.
- JetAlone 4y ago
  Out of autonomy, out of food. Out of a job, out of blood. Rising flood raises all ships. The stakes will get higher for all of us. Edit: Besides, the GP's got a slav sounding username. One would be wise not to assume civilization rates in excess of 75%. Strong slavs make bad times. Bad times make strong slavs.
  - time0ut 4y ago
    Maybe more Russian sounding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
    - JetAlone 4y ago
      Russians are a slavic people. There are ethnic subgroups of other backgrounds that live largely within the borders of Russian and have Russian nationality like the Tatars, the Chechens, the Kalmyks etc.
bobthepanda 4y ago
There are several local governments in the US requiring cash payments specifically because there are still major unbanked segments of the population.
Asooka 4y ago
> incinerating fat cats to doom music Don't threaten me with a good time. Though I don't think that would help. Let's say we go cashless some day, then people get oppressed and manage to put together an uprising. Will the result be the return of cash, or just putting another despot in charge? So many times it's the latter. Perhaps the only real answer is smashing the datacentres, like modern-day luddites..

mistrial9 4y ago

but you missed a crucial part -- the post says "pitchforks" but is made by a ninety-nine percent civilized person with manners and education, who is unlikely to actually do the physical act mentioned -- but in the modern day, will Very Likely remember this topic at voting time. Take-no-prisoners politics means that the losing candidate, really actually loses and is therefore out of a job right now. So these are high stakes for political types and they do know it. Sadly most American politicians on both sides of the aisle would probably vote for cashless right now, but, not all of them... and things do change.

JetAlone 4y ago
Out of autonomy, out of food. Out of a job, out of blood. Rising flood raises all ships. The stakes will get higher for all of us. Edit: Besides, the GP's got a slav sounding username. One would be wise not to assume civilization rates in excess of 75%. Strong slavs make bad times. Bad times make strong slavs.
- time0ut 4y ago
  Maybe more Russian sounding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
  - JetAlone 4y ago
    Russians are a slavic people. There are ethnic subgroups of other backgrounds that live largely within the borders of Russian and have Russian nationality like the Tatars, the Chechens, the Kalmyks etc.

bobthepanda 4y ago

There are several local governments in the US requiring cash payments specifically because there are still major unbanked segments of the population.

Asooka 4y ago

> incinerating fat cats to doom music Don't threaten me with a good time. Though I don't think that would help. Let's say we go cashless some day, then people get oppressed and manage to put together an uprising. Will the result be the return of cash, or just putting another despot in charge? So many times it's the latter. Perhaps the only real answer is smashing the datacentres, like modern-day luddites..