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Imagine you’re a dissident and you’re running from your government. You’re are more likely to succeed if you have cash.
by p1esk 4y ago
Imagine you’re a dissident and you’re running from your government. You’re are more likely to succeed if you have cash.
- ceejayoz 4y agoIf I'm a dissident running from the government I probably don't want the attention generated by bringing 10k Euros in cash into a business to buy something.
- p1esk 4y agoGood point. Still, this law is a step on a slippery slope.
- csomar 4y agoWe don't know what circumstances this "dissident running from the government" is facing.
- XorNot 4y agoGovernment is under no obligation to make it easy for you to overthrow it (which is by definition, a criminal enterprise). You want to avoid problems? Get involved in local politics, or start a media publication or literally any one of a thousand things you could do right now which is going to be a lot easier then "become an off the grid fugitive dissident".
- akimball 4y agoNo one becomes a refugee by choice
- cute_boi 4y ago>"You want to avoid problems? Get involved in local politics, or start a media publication or literally any one of a thousand things you could do right now which is going to be a lot easier then "become an off the grid fugitive dissident"." It isn't as easy as you are saying. If it was this easy, there would be no issues, no poverty, no refuge etc.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoCommon bartering trick is that you don't keep all your money in your wallet. Then you pull it out and say "golly gee, I can only afford to pay X", and you can bypass some of the back and forth. Similar technique would let the dissident avoid raising suspicion. Keep a few hundos in their wallet, a thousand in a different pocket, rolled up in their socks, stuffed in a bra, etc etc