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there's always bigger fish to fry and therefore we cannot talk about the smaller ones? but srsly, "cashless" used to be a FPÖ (the far right party in Austria)

there's always bigger fish to fry and therefore we cannot talk about the smaller ones? but srsly, "cashless" used to be a FPÖ (the far right party in Austria) topic, now the conservatives have finally picked up on it. I don't like either of their agendas and nobody seriously suggested going cashless in Austria. However, I'm also not a fan of being forced to use a private company just to pay for my basic necessities. And it seems plausible to me that after a certain decline of cash usage and the corresponding decline in infrastructure, there will be a tipping point when handling cash becomes so expensive that it will be shut down for cost reasons. A good question to ask imo is: Is it possible to hold a view that's not held by my political ingroup?

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>there's always bigger fish to fry and therefore we cannot talk about the smaller ones? Why not focus on the bigger fish that actually impact everyone? If I'm bleeding from my severed artery, I'm gonna care about that more than my chipped tooth. Politicians focusing on mediatizing bogus issues to keep voting population attention away from the real issue is the oldest trick in the book ("hey don't look at our corruption scandals and the rising CoL, look at how we're gonna defend your use of cash"). >However, I'm also not a fan of being forced to use a private company just to pay for my basic necessities. What about your bank? Necessities are more than just paying for groceries at the supermarket by cash, you know. All your other actual necessities like salary, tax-returns, insurances, utilities and sometimes rent are deducted automatically via direct debit from you bank account, not via cash-in0hand trasnations. You can't live cash-only without a bank as an intermediate anyway. >handling cash becomes so expensive that it will be shut down for cost reasons. But handling cash the right way (counting it, accounting it, carrying and storing it securely, etc) already IS more expensive that contactless transaction fees, but cash-only businesses offset that by doing tax-fraud, and as an honest tax-payer I want tax-fraud to end. Getting rid of cash completely is just a bonus and a means to ending tax-fraud. Tax fraud is a bigger issue in Austria.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago

>there's always bigger fish to fry and therefore we cannot talk about the smaller ones? Why not focus on the bigger fish that actually impact everyone? If I'm bleeding from my severed artery, I'm gonna care about that more than my chipped tooth. Politicians focusing on mediatizing bogus issues to keep voting population attention away from the real issue is the oldest trick in the book ("hey don't look at our corruption scandals and the rising CoL, look at how we're gonna defend your use of cash"). >However, I'm also not a fan of being forced to use a private company just to pay for my basic necessities. What about your bank? Necessities are more than just paying for groceries at the supermarket by cash, you know. All your other actual necessities like salary, tax-returns, insurances, utilities and sometimes rent are deducted automatically via direct debit from you bank account, not via cash-in0hand trasnations. You can't live cash-only without a bank as an intermediate anyway. >handling cash becomes so expensive that it will be shut down for cost reasons. But handling cash the right way (counting it, accounting it, carrying and storing it securely, etc) already IS more expensive that contactless transaction fees, but cash-only businesses offset that by doing tax-fraud, and as an honest tax-payer I want tax-fraud to end. Getting rid of cash completely is just a bonus and a means to ending tax-fraud. Tax fraud is a bigger issue in Austria.