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> I don't want my bank knowing everything about my diet etc. Germans have a certain paranoia. I understand where it comes from but how are you ever going to mo

> I don't want my bank knowing everything about my diet etc. Germans have a certain paranoia. I understand where it comes from but how are you ever going to move on if you hold these beliefs so tightly?

somenameforme 3y ago
I find it odd to phrase it as "move on" given the direction much of the rest of the world is headed. Anytime things become digitized, the centuries of civil and social rights, rights which people fought and died for, end up getting completely thrown to the wayside. The exact same would happen to money. In some ways we're already seeing the foreshadowing of this in some of the previously most liberal places on Earth, like Canada. Even if one may not agree with what the truckers were protesting about, it seems unconscionable to freeze people's bank accounts as punishment for engaging in, or supporting, a completely and genuinely peaceful protest. [1] [1] - https://fortune.com/2022/02/16/trudeau-freeze-freedom-convoy-bank-accounts-canada-covid-protest-emergency-powers/ https://fortune.com/2022/02/16/trudeau-freeze-freedom-convoy...
- tosihakkeri 3y ago
  How is cash helping with this? Should we start storing the notes under our mattresses or? Sorry I’m not sure I understand your point.
  - philwelch 3y ago
    People got their bank accounts frozen because they contributed to fundraisers for the trucker protest. If they could contribute to the protesters using a more private method of payment, they wouldn't be subject to these authoritarian retributions from the government.
xkcd-sucks 3y ago
In the 1930s, "Progress" was the replacement of a relatively free society with Nazi authoritarianism. In the 1940s, "Progress" (for half of the country) was the replacement of Nazi authoritarianism, where the secret police mostly targeted ethnic/political/sexual minorities, with Soviet authoritarianism, where the secret police targeted literally everyone and everything. So perhaps that is an object lesson in the value of not "moving on" from a relatively good situation
DANmode 3y ago
Tell me who you believe has moved on, and myself and other commenters will share with you how they're being stabbed.

somenameforme 3y ago

I find it odd to phrase it as "move on" given the direction much of the rest of the world is headed. Anytime things become digitized, the centuries of civil and social rights, rights which people fought and died for, end up getting completely thrown to the wayside. The exact same would happen to money. In some ways we're already seeing the foreshadowing of this in some of the previously most liberal places on Earth, like Canada. Even if one may not agree with what the truckers were protesting about, it seems unconscionable to freeze people's bank accounts as punishment for engaging in, or supporting, a completely and genuinely peaceful protest. [1] [1] - https://fortune.com/2022/02/16/trudeau-freeze-freedom-convoy-bank-accounts-canada-covid-protest-emergency-powers/ https://fortune.com/2022/02/16/trudeau-freeze-freedom-convoy...

tosihakkeri 3y ago
How is cash helping with this? Should we start storing the notes under our mattresses or? Sorry I’m not sure I understand your point.
- philwelch 3y ago
  People got their bank accounts frozen because they contributed to fundraisers for the trucker protest. If they could contribute to the protesters using a more private method of payment, they wouldn't be subject to these authoritarian retributions from the government.

xkcd-sucks 3y ago

In the 1930s, "Progress" was the replacement of a relatively free society with Nazi authoritarianism. In the 1940s, "Progress" (for half of the country) was the replacement of Nazi authoritarianism, where the secret police mostly targeted ethnic/political/sexual minorities, with Soviet authoritarianism, where the secret police targeted literally everyone and everything. So perhaps that is an object lesson in the value of not "moving on" from a relatively good situation

DANmode 3y ago

Tell me who you believe has moved on, and myself and other commenters will share with you how they're being stabbed.