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You’re kidding, right? Average people buy cars with cash: a teen saving from first jobs for a first used car… eventually, “10k” will be where “teen” used cars l
by flandish 4y ago
You’re kidding, right? Average people buy cars with cash: a teen saving from first jobs for a first used car… eventually, “10k” will be where “teen” used cars land … and boom, average person.
A person with a down payment on a house.
…I can go on.
The point is this: casting this wide a net in the name of “fighting terrorists” is absolute nonsense, and not worth what would happen to a terrorist in this net: a few extra “10k money limit” charges… compared to the literal thousands of people this will inconvenience.
Anything a nation does in the name of fighting an enemy that is, in essence, a version of Lacan’s “objet petit a” - is a nation lying to its people.
- Symbiote 4y agoAverage Europeans use bank transfers or debit cards to make these payments.
- nibbleshifter 4y agoHave you met Germans?
- tom_ 4y agoIt's the same in the UK, and has been for years. I'm glad there are people objecting to a limit on transactions made in physical cash, but it feels a bit ridiculous to suggest that such a limit would actually massively inconvenience people in general.