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Not while anyone still takes cash, that’s for sure.
Same goes for fingerprint and eyeball scans. Not a chance.
The jihadists could have a field day with black market hands.
It’s inevitable…we can resist,(and I will)
but I just read the ‘Pig Trap’ post, and, yes, it’s gonna get ugly.
“the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark…”
Always thought the biblical prophecy about the system of the beast referred to the biometric encoding of your fingerprint or retina.
Unfortunately sooner than we think.
This does seem to closely related to the “Pig Trap” post.
cash please. & seriously thinking of getting out of the city.
“Live Free or Die.”
And eventually you die anyway, so you might as well choose to stay free to the very last breath. The only implant they’ll ever force me to accept is a bullet or a blade.
Young Omar khadr used to collect hands on a
Stick
May hap this was in anticipation of such a device
Those Mussi’s are smarter than joos
The mark of the beast came to mind seeing that pic. When the gov’t starts pushing for a cashless society…we will be so screwed.
Not screwed, just winning in a prophetic way.
Scientists can’t get the weather right, but those who wrote the bible got it correct a while back
A cash purchase is a contract negotiated between a willing seller and a willing buyer.
The cash is legal tender, which is imprinted on all bills issued by the Bank of Canada.
No third party is involved.
A purchase using an electronic monetary transfer, eventually, will only be one which the government approves of.
Government’s will be tempted beyond it’s limited self-control(if it has any?).
Sooner or later, the government, as the third party, will decide what and how much of anything you are allowed to purchase.
All your purchases will require government permission, likely by submitting your “SIN” number. Add another pause to the transaction, while the government supercomputer decides to authorize the purchase or not.
The first limit the amount of greenhouse gas producing petroleum products you are allowed in a year.
Heat your home or fill up your car, you choose. Too long a driving trip in September and you’ve used up your allotment before the end of December, too bad.
Hunters would be allowed one bullet and have to return the empty brass case before being allowed a second.
Or they could trade that bullet for 50 lbs of soy beans.
Muzzle-loaders will be prohibited as citizens could make their own ammunition and flint.
Now I feel silly for getting that barcode tattood on my forehead.
But seriously, there’s nothing worse than standing in line for seven hours to pick up your weekly allotment of Soylent Green, and then suddenly realising you forgot your ration book back in the communal sleep barracks.
Our comrades in The Glorious Central Planning Committee truly have our peace of mind at heart. Why can’t you just accept their love?
a cashless society. is not likely to happen. Cash will always be a convenient means of barter. Toonies will still be used in some form hundreds of hears from now.
And I know of a lot of people, especially members of the I-phone generation, who would find it extremely convenient to be able to pay with a finger print or retinal scan. An average lobotomized zombie on the street would sure welcome the development and would not think twice about the consequences.
I disagree. After my first audit a few years back, I realized not much can be acquired from cash that the feds don’t know about. And when cash is printed with a nod and a wink, it’s value becomes less and less. At some point the governments around the world will throw their hands up when trying to stay ahead of the counterfeiters.
Barter on the other hand, can be anything. Just like the old days.
Barter on the other hand, can be anything. Just like the old days.
Then you appear to agree. Point is, coins will always be a convenient medium of exchange in bartering regardless of what the ‘government’ values them at, if at all. Coinage is a lot more convenient than carrying a chicken or leading a cow.
Computer systems often ‘go down’ and it will happen more frequently. I still pay with cash as always while the i-zombies fiddle with their toys in frustration.
Sounds awesome. I embrace the biometric society, as long as it’s voluntary. The convergence of biometrics and untraceable cryptocurrency will make commercial transactions convenient and anonymous. The Luddites can only bray and flail like they always do.
I do not agree.
Barter is not coin, nor dollar. I am not discussing “haggling”.
But if you are saying that animal, or grain, or labor can be considered cash; than yes I agree with you.
Use both cash and plastic, depending on which is more convenient for the situation. I’m not limited to chose one or the other, both will always work better than either. Cash is always a good back-up. There’s still a significant ‘cash only’ segment who have no use for computers or ‘i-whatevers’. Hipsters seem to think the world emulates them, it’s part of their narcissism culture.
“There’s still a significant ‘cash only’ segment who have no use for computers or ‘i-whatevers”
Yeah, well unfortunately the government don’t give a rears end about these people. When it comes to stopping the printers, it is going to happen no matter who you vote for. “Inevitable” isn’t owned by anyone.
“The mark of the beast”
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“Use both cash and plastic”
heads up buckweet, both are quite traceable if the gov’t so wishes to do so
If I can pay taxes by scanning my middle finger, I’m in.
Will it make change for the pound of flesh closest to your heart?
Biometric scanning is all the rage down south where the Homeland stazi roam and the sheep are sheered by crony capitalists. Of course what little remains of the free market could solve such dilemmas, but free markets, like democracies require informed consumers, so who knows what good an consumer boycott would accomplish in a zombified nation – Those left who do value their privacy and small constrained government simply do not want to patronize any business which requires this type of identity-for-goods transaction. There are three reasons every liberty loving individual should discourage such dangerous commerce –
1) Because any business using Bio-scan electronic debit is hooked into the whole NSA-DHS-IRS big brother spy grid which will record and scrutinize your commercial preferences/travels then politically profile you as friend or foe of the current Washington Junta.
2) Such a place will be full of self-destructive zombies who care less about their own freedoms than yours – it’s not good to associate with such low self esteem quislings and prey animals – they will be ground up in big brother’s wood chipper soon enough, no need to know them on a name/face basis.
3) Any commercial establishment which offers no choices in the way you transact business with them has abandoned free market capitalism for crony kleptonomics and is as sleazy as the government who promises them a captive market in return for selling out their customer’s privacy.
Keep putting cash across the counter folks because big bro has been salivating to remove cash and usher in a centrally controlled fully surveilled e-commerce system where politics determines your cash flow and tax rates and privacy will be something only “terrorists” need.
I will never use such a system. Every electronic payment system has to ask one question “does this customer have the currency to pay?”. That requires an electronic query that is recorded somewhere in a database. As Edward Snowden has revealed to the world certain government agencies south of the border can access any database in the world. With biometric cashless technology everything you buy or sell could be monitored by government who could then ration it or tax it for your own good, i.e. your second coffee in a 24hour period could lead to hypertension so a ‘health-tax’ will be levied against it, ditto with fast food meals at McDonalds et al. Since government is always looking for tax revenue every transaction could be taxed. That roofing job you did for your neighbours, the old trailer you sold, or those old car parts you sold would all be taxed as part of the transaction.
In a truly cashless society where everyone’s cash is ‘stored’ in an electronic account on a server, the government could expropriate your wealth with a few strokes of a keyboard similar to what happened in Cyprus. Would you really want for example Kathleen Wynne or Allison Redford to be able take some of your RRSPs in order to balance the provincial debt on the promise that the province will take care of you when you retire?
Al’s last point is a valid one; just watch the statist pigs south of the border eyeballing american IRAs in the future.
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The thing is, SpinalTap, that it be neither voluntary nor anonymous.
“No third party is involved”
Wrongo. The Government of Canada is involved.
Bitcoin fixes that. Truly, no third party.
Score Joel!!