• Cognitive_Dissident@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    There’s already businesses that are cashless and unless people talk about it the trend might well continue to the point it has enough of a foothold that we might not be able to stop it.

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      6 months ago

      There is a massive difference between a business being cashless and a government enforced “cashless society” like this post describes.

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        6 months ago

        Spain, Belgium, and France have banned cash transactions above a threshhold (e.g. €3k) at least 5 years ago already. Cannot pay tax using cash in Belgium. Think about that for a minute.

        New recent law in Belgium: all businesses (incl. self-employed workers and even landlords renting out property) MUST accept electronic payment. Try doing that without using a bank.

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        6 months ago

        sigh If a simple majority of businesses decided to go 100% cashless, the government would have no choice but to embrace it. Again: too many of you sit there in your chairs and say “oh well that could NEVER happen” then when it does you’re shocked, shocked I tell you, that it DID happen.

        I get pretty fucking tired of explaining things over and over again to people who apparently are just plain too dense to grasp what I’m saying and be rational about it.

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          6 months ago
          1. I completely disagree that if a majority of businesses went cashless that would mean the government has no choice but to be cashless.
          2. I never said it “could NEVER happen.”
          3. What do you mean it “DID happen,” it hasn’t.
          4. Ad hominem gets you nowhere.