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What a CASHLESS society REALLY means (links.hackliberty.org)
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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking of the US and Canada https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/05/more-americans-are-joining-the-cashless-economy/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-banking

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Sure ok. If you don't trust US and canadian banks your best bet is probably to go off grid and live in the wilderness. Good luck.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Lol, what? I guess Europe is wilderness then.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

I think I will instead promote keeping their power limited, such as by using cash

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, US Banks, famously the picture of honesty. If you know one thing about the US banks it's how honest they truly are. If you know two things the other is probably the depression or the 2008 financial crisis, don't worry about that though, they're as trustworthy as the CIA which has definitely stopped all those nefarious things they did as soon as Alan Dulles died.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Not being from the US or Canada I don't know the first thing about your banks or the CIA. That said, it just seems ridiculous to me that a bank would control you through the management of your money.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

To you, because you don't know the first thing about our banks, no offense. If you did you wouldn't trust them either lol. It seems absolutely plausible they'd do it imo. They already do it with criminals to an extent, which could be argued as fair I suppose, but I don't want to see that expand at the very least.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

Visa, Mastercard, Amex, and Paypal famously colluded to block donations to wikileaks. That control was exercised at an international level.