yournamehere@lemm.ee 1 day ago
look at sweden…hands out papers telling you to have cash for week…but doesnt accept cash anywhere. we all can learn from the dumb nations.
no cash means government controls who you can give money to. beggers,homeless ppl, panhandlers… are all doomed. if you cant get a phone, you cant have money. if you dont have a home or money you cant sign a phonecontract and so on…
cashless societies are nothing but a nasty techbro dream.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
In China, they have Wechat Wallet that people can give money to homeless people. Even homeless people have phones.
It is nasty and dystopian, I agree. But its not really a fantasy anymore, its real, the dystopian future is on the horizon. Soon, it’d be too late to stop the dystopia.
At first, mass surveillance cameras is only in China, but then even supposed “democracies” like the UK have millions of cameras. Then China became mostly cashless, that will also eventually happen to western countries.
The dystopia is coming. You can’t stop it.
octobob@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I visited Australia last year. There were surveillance cameras just about everywhere. Even on rural highways to catch speeders
www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/safe-city-cameras
yournamehere@lemm.ee 1 day ago
heard that china pandler story too often by now. durinf sleep ppl tend to dream but reality will come they will wake up. maybe we are a cashless world by then…i wont stop it…but reality will. in a world of nations fighting each other digital money cant work.