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With many countries already heading towards cashless transactions, we are facing some hard decisions. These decisions will be made whether we ignore them or not, so to have a say it is essential to be active. These are not new issues, but they are quickly approaching. Dominic Frisby at The Guardian is the latest to take up some of the pertinent questions around the move to a cashless society.
Poor people and small businesses rely on cash. A contactless system will likely entrench poverty and pave the way for terrifying levels of surveillance.
Source: Why we should fear a cashless world
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It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Friday July 21 2017, @09:10PM
"What the fuck is wrong with the people in charge? This has a creepy, almost sexual or voyeuristic overtone to it, like they're getting off on tracking and controlling people."
Power is a drug, once you start getting it, you want more and more. Arguably people prone to getting addicted to power are drawn towards power, hence the high concentration of addicts in said positions of power. This isn't new, in fact, it is more than 2000 years old. When the ancient Greeks developed democracy, they knew of the risks brought upon by those who seek power for powers sake, so they forbade people from being politicians and lawyers.
Of course, over the millennia that really really important bit (not having professional politicians and lawyers) got eroded away, and with it democracy floundered, and now we got some nasty crap that is democracy in name mostly.