The Cashless Society

[I AM ALL I AM]

G'day.

The video below shows a report about the disappearance of ATMs in Australia. Here are the stat's if you don't feel like watching the video ...

"ATMS DISSAPPEAR
6,057 GONE

- JUNE 2017: 13,814
- JUNE 2018: 12,639
- JUNE 2019: 11,560
- JUNE 2020: 9,621
- JUNE 2021: 7,757"

... so almost half the amount of ATMs have 'disappeared' within a 4 year period. I have noticed this locally and recognised the purpose behind it. Maybe this will help people to realise what is coming with the cashless society that has been planned for decades ago. Then again, maybe not.

Thousands of ATMs disappearing in Australia​

Does anybody remember the movie 'The Net', with Sandra Bullock in it?

When everything is digitalised, all it takes is a flick of a switch, a click of a button and you are 'erased'. Also, all purchases become dependent upon electricity ... no electricity = no purchases. Then of course there are the more nefarious uses of everything being digitalised, like in the movie The Net ... change of ID, criminal record, etc., etc.

Welcome to the 'Brave New World' [Order], or what has come to be known as 'The Great Reset' !!!

1995 - The Net - Trailer​

Angela Bennett is a computer expert. This young and beautiful analyst is never far from a computer and modem. The only activity she has outside of computers is visiting her mother. A friend, whom she's only spoken to over the net and phone, Dale Hessman, sent her a program with a weird glitch for her to de-bug. That night, he left to meet her and was killed in a plane crash. Angela discovers secret information on the disk she has received only hours before she leaves for vacation. Her life then turns into a nightmare, her records are erased from existence and she is given a new identity, one with a police record. She struggles to find out why this has happened and who has it in for her.

 

[roastie]

It's obvious and has been for years, but most people just don't want to know. I pity elderly people who can't
grasp all this internet banking and effing apps. Banks are now restaurants worldwide

Top 5 in former banks

From Christopher Corbin's and Jeremy King's latest mega-successful venture to the breakthrough Indian restaurant Zaika and the lustrous Pearl, Fay Maschler reveals the restaurateurs who are cashing in at the bank...

www.standard.co.uk

Just one of probably thousands of examples, Battersea, London

JUST PAY CASH AS LONG AS YOU CAN

 

[roastie]

I was really pissed off this week because the local computer store where I buy HP ink cartridges in CASH for about
12 euros has gone bust afaik. There is only one other outlet who wanted 35 euros!!!! When I choked on her price, she said the
cartridge was high quality! The same cartridge I have purchased for 12 euros before. Scammer. I had to resort to Amazon for
15 euros and pay by credit card, which goes against everything I stand for, i.e. supporting local small businesses and paying CASH
Big sigh.

 

[I AM ALL I AM]

G'day Roastie.

In the video, Graham states that he doesn't know of any business's that won't accept cash. Obviously he hasn't attempted to catch a bus on the Gold Coast. They have been cashless for years. You are supposed to get a 'Go Card' and check in and off the bus electronically with it.

I have been refused service because I only had cash on me. Most drivers will simply let you on for free, some telling you that you have to get a 'Go Card'. The thing is, by law, they aren't actually allowed to refuse a cash payment.

There was an incident a number of years ago, when late at night someone was refused entry on a bus and was later assaulted at the bus stop. As a report about it was on the MSM, public outcry over the refusal made a change and there is a 'no one left behind' deal where you can get a ride even if you do not have the money for it. I don't use the service often, maybe once a year or two, so I don't recall the full story. My flatmate knows it and I will ask him later today when he gets up (after 12am here now).

I refuse to get a 'Go Card' and any time I have used a bus for transport I always offer to pay and have only had the one refusal I mentioned above.

I also refuse to use the automated cash register BS at the Supermarket, where you scan your own stuff. Not that I shop there often. Still, it is taking a job away from someone and setting everyone up for the cashless society.

I have a bank account and therefore a card for it. That's it. No rewards card, no credit card, none of that shit. I refuse to help institute a cashless society where everything is digitalised.

 

[roastie]

If someone wanted to pay with a card for a bus where I live in Spain (not a city) the driver would be very amused.
Cash is still very welcome in my part of Spain, with one restaurant until only recently only accepting cash. That said
more and more people are using cards. I moved to Spain 15 years ago and I would estimate 10% of transactions
were by card at that time. Now I estimate 60-70%

 

[I AM ALL I AM]

G'day Roastie.

Many here use either a card or their phone to buy things, even at a farmers market it is prevalent. I still remember when people were claiming it was 'faster', yet standing behind someone in a cue to pay for your purchases it is noticeably slower when someone pays by card.

The 'Go Card' is a card for transport only. You can purchase tickets at the light rail stations or train stations, though it is 'encouraged' via recorded messages on the light rail and trains to use a 'Go Card'. This is in Queensland. In New South Wales you can buy a ticket on a bus no problem. The 'Go Card' is simply another way they are conditioning people to live without cash.

Apart from food, there isn't much I actually buy, so I couldn't make an estimate on what percentage of people use cards to make purchases. I have seen many buying groceries with their card and taking out money from their account at the same time. This is another way to condition people to not use an ATM and therefore not complain when they started disappearing. I would love to see some stats on how many banks have closed over the last 10-20 years. That is something that people complained about.

Many simply refuse to see the writing on the wall and others actively support the idea of a cashless society without realising what the implications are.