I've tried that experiment -- paid cash for an airline ticket the day before. Supposedly, this would subject me to extra screening, but no such thing actually happened. Went through the normal line, no additional questions.
Saddling everyone with more mass surveillance is not a worthwhile price to pay for tight border security. East Germany had tight border security and great surveillance in the 80s. Fortunately, they had themselves a nice little revolution.
That might be a good idea for a protest against cashlessness.
If it's a store like WalMart, fill your cart, then walk out after they fail to accept cash. If it's a fast-food joint, order as much as possible with "extra" hot sauce, have them start MAKING the orders. Whoops, don't have a card, walk out, leaving them to have done work and with custom orders they can't easily sell.
Spread the word -- if everyone does it, they might have to mend their bankster-lovin' ways.
Who has $100,000 credit on a card, and who can afford to pay $1000 to $3000 to banksters as a commission? I hope THEY'RE the ones eating the commissions!
Wouldn't hurt to leave bad reviews even if their food is great and maybe report a few roaches to the health department. Cashless == deserves to be driven the hell out of business by means fair or foul.
Ever seen most real-world security camera footage? Crap resolution, crap focus, dirty lense. It takes real WORK to match a name to a face, and serial numbers are hard if not impossible to see. The real world is not "24", it's more like "Keystone Kops."
The phone? You can go to the store without carrying one (leave it at home) and pay cash.
"Crime" is what the government of the day chooses to name as a crime. I'm not talking about murder or theft -- I'm talking about crimes like choosing what substances to put into one's body, choosing to keep one's baby or not, choosing whom to have a relationship with (not too long ago, inter-racial relationships were illegal in the US).
Because of places with credit card minimums. Because I value my privacy. Because it works even when networks are down. Because it's easy to use it to split bills. Because it's faster to go to the window to top up a MetroCard with cash than wait in line for a machine.
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Something like Square or Venmo, probably.
Let them. That might be a final path to collapse and a righteous revolution.
As long as we don't have democratic socialism, may as well use cash and make it harder for them.
By "filth", I mean government functionaries and banksters, neither of which describe me.
Better a filthy junkie than a Puritanical do-gooder asshole.
I've tried that experiment -- paid cash for an airline ticket the day before. Supposedly, this would subject me to extra screening, but no such thing actually happened. Went through the normal line, no additional questions.
Saddling everyone with more mass surveillance is not a worthwhile price to pay for tight border security. East Germany had tight border security and great surveillance in the 80s. Fortunately, they had themselves a nice little revolution.
That might be a good idea for a protest against cashlessness.
If it's a store like WalMart, fill your cart, then walk out after they fail to accept cash. If it's a fast-food joint, order as much as possible with "extra" hot sauce, have them start MAKING the orders. Whoops, don't have a card, walk out, leaving them to have done work and with custom orders they can't easily sell.
Spread the word -- if everyone does it, they might have to mend their bankster-lovin' ways.
Who has $100,000 credit on a card, and who can afford to pay $1000 to $3000 to banksters as a commission? I hope THEY'RE the ones eating the commissions!
Wouldn't hurt to leave bad reviews even if their food is great and maybe report a few roaches to the health department. Cashless == deserves to be driven the hell out of business by means fair or foul.
Couldn't a cell phone or tablet camera and a signing app do the same thing for a "flat" card?
Which is actually worse, since it will affect availability of real-world goods faster.
Ever seen most real-world security camera footage? Crap resolution, crap focus, dirty lense. It takes real WORK to match a name to a face, and serial numbers are hard if not impossible to see. The real world is not "24", it's more like "Keystone Kops."
The phone? You can go to the store without carrying one (leave it at home) and pay cash.
Roads, libraries, etc are a good thing.
But the US government deserves to take a haircut because it massively overspends on mass incarceration and military homicide sprees.
Depriving them of their revenue would force them to re-evaluate their priorities on pain of bankruptcy.
Countries like Iceland did right by throwing the banksters in prison after 2008.
"Crime" is what the government of the day chooses to name as a crime. I'm not talking about murder or theft -- I'm talking about crimes like choosing what substances to put into one's body, choosing to keep one's baby or not, choosing whom to have a relationship with (not too long ago, inter-racial relationships were illegal in the US).
Cash may have passed through ten sets of hands between withdrawal and deposit. A bit harder for the filth to track than credit card transactions.
CCTV takes more work for the fucking pigs to match a name to a location. Credit card required zero work for the filth to do so.
Require them to provide scarlet modems with the letter N painted on them. That would be very old-school Massachusetts.
Because of places with credit card minimums. Because I value my privacy. Because it works even when networks are down. Because it's easy to use it to split bills. Because it's faster to go to the window to top up a MetroCard with cash than wait in line for a machine.
If they're charging you what's on the meter, and took the most direct route, how are they cheating you?
"Sells" or "sold" prior to Uber becoming a thing?
City streets can only handle a certain amount of traffic before becoming a congested mess.
Yep. It's called American Puritanism. Gotta love it! The zealots that Europe didn't want ended up running things in the New World.
Amtrak and Metro North are actually a hell of a lot more pleasant to ride than flying on (private) scarelines.