25 February 2020
It is not gaining popularity just because innumerate and illiterate cashiers seem to be de rigueur. (“Math is hard!” “Reading is boring!”) Well, that IS the reason that pictograms cover many of the registers at the QuikkStopp-by-the-Interstate™ and McGreaseTrapp’s™ these days, but not so much the push to eliminate financial freedom or flexibility.
No, the appeal of cashlessness goes much deeper than that. Soviet Stukaschi and Nazi Capo would likely appreciate our cashless trend. By restricting payment to NSA-approved tracking devices (“RFID” &c) it becomes much easier for the Occupation to follow us, watch us, and control us. By restricting liquid assets to F’eral Reserve Digits instead of grams of silver or liters of gasoline, it becomes much easier for organized criminals to rob us of our resources through inflationary excess, or simply to drain the digits from our accounts at their discretion. In a cashless world, tax “cheating” would all but disappear. (And of course, by “cheating” taxes I mean, like “cheating” death, i.e., preserving that which no one had the right to take.)
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