I’ve warned about this sort of thinking before, but the people who want to control our lives and monitor our every move simply will not stop in their efforts to get rid of cash. They try to make it sound wonderful. Utopian:
The fact is, we could become a cashless society within a very few short years. All the necessary technology is already available. What’s stopping us is our emotional attachment to banknotes and coins, and the unwillingness of some of us to embrace change.
Will the added convenience, security and law-enforcement benefits that going cashless could bring wean us off our love of folding money and jingling coins?
I hope not.
The same thing they’re saying about money could be said about guns.
The fact is, we could become a gun-free society within a very few short years. All the necessary technology is already available. What’s stopping us is our emotional attachment to pistols and rifles, and the unwillingness of some of us to embrace change.
And just think of the added convenience, security and law-enforcement benefits of being gun-free?
I guess I’m just emotionally attached to privacy. What a neurotic I am! I have this weird hangup about not liking being forced to leave an electronic trail allowing government bureaucrats (or any other busybody or determined snoop) to be able to monitor how I spend what is supposed to be mine.
Maybe they should call the desire for privacy a “disease” and start medicating people for it the way they’re medicating them for the normal human condition of unhappiness.
(I’d say that Santorum likes privacy about as much as Obama, but that might be offensive…)
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4 responses to “Why do backward people cling to their money?”
“Maybe they should call the desire for privacy a ‘disease’ ”
They already have and are looking for a “cure” in case it gets out of control.
I think it will be directly or indirectly illegal to not have a bank account within the next 20 years. It’s virtually impossible not to have one now, but people without bank accounts are harder to spy on.
I live in a rural area, and a surprisingly large fraction of the population lives off the books. They do not have bank accounts, nor do they register to vote. In the check-out line at Walmart, they pay the bill in cash from a large (and I mean large) wad. 100s and 50s comprise much of the wad, which itself must be the total assets of the owner.
Going cashless would be sooooo convenient!
Right up until, say, the power was out, or someone launched a DDOS attack against your bank, or you wanted to have a garage sale, or, ….
It would be real convenient for the revenooers, though; they’d finally be able to collect sales & income taxes on flea market sellers, garage sales, day labor, and all the rest of the cash economy.