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A cashless society discriminates against whomever that society wishes to discriminate against. That's the point: total central control of all exchanges of value
by superkuh 4y ago
A cashless society discriminates against whomever that society wishes to discriminate against. That's the point: total central control of all exchanges of value between humans. Nothing outside of the state. It's an intensely authoritarian goal with obvious and inevitable results. It's just a matter of time before some bad* group gets in power and turns the system against you.
- satellites 4y agoCapital and the Capital-owned State work in tandem to make things like this happen. They are one and the same.
- thekingofrome 4y agoI completely agree with what you say, but I hardly see it as better now. Big payment services (from traditional banks to PayPal) lock "high-risk" (meaning anyone who has ideas they don't like) customers out of their services completely independent of the justice system and state apparatus.
- undersuit 4y agoAnd it's not like the poor and elderly aren't already discriminated against in cash based societies of today and in modern history.
- bheadmaster 4y agoMore of a reason to fight back ever harder, instead of just surrendering.
- john_the_writer 4y agoI remember when the credit cards blocked wiki-leaks. People become beholden to the organisations that own the cards. In Australia the gov doesn't give the first nations people assistance, they give them cards that denote how they can spend the money. It's nanny state in the highest.