Ye, it's all a right wing conspiracy! Or left! Or middle... Who cares, just keep consuming and don't ask questions.
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Are there reasonably okay options to paying digitally without the surveillance part (or at least less of it as compared to credit cards?) Blockchain is a nonstarter due to the practical limitations in sustaining proof of work and stake.
No. You can’t have privacy and also a ledger required to prevent money laundering and other scams.
Austrian citizen here and idk if he would qualify as far right in the US but our current president is one of them!
who cares? share good privacy preserving tips. don't agree? do you and see if it works out.
I'm as dead centre as it gets. On some topics, I'll gently lean left or right, but try to be balanced in my analysis of things.
I advocate for cash, as I also advocate for privacy. It doesn't make me far right.
There are plenty of reasons for cash. For me, it's privacy. For others, I'm sure there are some solid, and some whacky reasons also.
The real issue for me will be the digital dollar. Every dollar will be tracked through every transaction it's ever involved in. From inception into eternity. The ability for that data to be abused is terrifying.
I'll keep using cash as long as it exists compared to what's coming with the digital dollar.
Paying in cash means I have to go to an actual store and talk to someone in person. No thank you
ATM's make pulling out cash an option without human interaction, plus there's exponentially less tracking possible. Seems like a win-win, especially when you take into account some banks are revoking the option to pull out cash.
What? Talking to a cashier is dreadful? That is why your againsh cash?
Cash is bad, but better than CBDC
Covid made this really hard and somewhat political. A lot of businesses stopped taking cash. Some still don't take cash. Covid was never spread much in surfaces but I wasn't trying to argue and look like some whack job antivax person.
Perhaps start life from a place where a fellow human being isn't subhuman because they disagree with your views and this will be less of a thing
How do we get people to do that?
Start with quit voting for a duopoly of elites bent on sewing division in the population to further entrench themselves as modern day kings. There's no original ideas happening except the ones people are told to have by the closely controlled media they're bombarded with 24 7
Who cares. When you're right, your right. I am sure many "far right people" are against stealing from your grandma. Agreeing to this common sense moral is bad?
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