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Cashless Society

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  • 25-06-2013 1:26am
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    SafeSurfer
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    Would you agree to a cashless society if it meant low levels of tax evasion, crime etc, but meant all your transactions were traceable?

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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    skywalker
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    Not if the bank fees keep going up.


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    #3
    BillyMitchel
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    Bro do you even lift?


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    Nemeses
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    skywalker wrote: »
    Not if the bank fees keep going up.


    Indeed, and for this occasion I have create my own bank.

    It uses monopoly money.


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    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    Would you agree to a cashless society if it meant low levels of tax evasion, crime etc, but meant all your transactions were traceable?

    would you?


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    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    BillyMitchel wrote: »
    Bro do you even lift?


    Naturally I finished the set.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    IM0 wrote: »
    would you?

    Would I Fock!

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    Nemeses wrote: »
    Indeed, and for this occasion I have create my own bank.

    It uses monopoly money.

    and is used for buy empty cardboard boxes of cereal, empty jars and leaves


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    Rayne Wooney
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    I couldn't comprehend a jamless society, I mean, what would we put on the other have of the peanut butter sandwich?


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    MOC88
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    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    Would you agree to a cashless society if it meant low levels of tax evasion, crime etc, but meant all your transactions were traceable?

    Well the problem is that it's one law in this country for one set of people and a completely different one for other people. The problem isn't tracability its the enforcement of laws IMO.

    Course I'd start a vegetable patch to bring down the system!


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    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    Would I Fock!

    your arguement is compelling. Im in. sold!


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    Stereomaniac
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    But we aren't allowed sell empty milk cartons, we just have to throw them out cuz they smell.


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    IM0
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    Stereomaniac wrote: »
    But we aren't allowed sell empty milk cartons, we just have to throw them out cuz they smell.

    rinse them you tit


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    Festy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭Festy


    No thanks,


    I ain't taking the mark of the beast so fuuuuu Obama :pac:


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    darragh o meara
    Registered Users Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭darragh o meara


    I couldn't see a cashless society ever working 100% there would too much control by banks and governments to do exactly what they want.

    Dame Edna gets a call from Merkel some morning saying we need more money, he goes to his computer and click click click and the money's gone... You get no say.

    They bring in a new tax!! Click and you've paid it, doesn't matter that you have food or anything else to pay for.

    At least if you have cash in some other safe spot other than a bank well only you can touch it.

    Before they could even contemplate it banks and politicians would need to be trusted 100% and corruption free. Will that ever happen??? I doubt it.


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    darragh o meara
    Registered Users Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭darragh o meara


    Festy wrote: »
    No thanks,


    I ain't taking the mark of the beast so fuuuuu Obama :pac:

    Isn't that not RFID related?? Where everyone is tagged with an rfid chip for identification?? That's scary stuff too by the way. Just done a research thesis on rfid and some of the patents that have been applied for in recent times to do with implantable rfid would scare you.

    For example a Middle Eastern scientist developed an implantable rfid tag which contained enough poison to kill a man. One click and it releases the poison into the bloodstream and you die....


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,249 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    I do live in a cashless society. Until Thursday...

    :o


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    Jonny7
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    darragh o meara wrote: »
    I couldn't see a cashless society ever working 100% there would too much control by banks and governments to do exactly what they want.

    Dame Edna gets a call from Merkel some morning saying we need more money, he goes to his computer and click click click and the money's gone... You get no say.

    They bring in a new tax!! Click and you've paid it, doesn't matter that you have food or anything else to pay for.

    At least if you have cash in some other safe spot other than a bank well only you can touch it.

    Before they could even contemplate it banks and politicians would need to be trusted 100% and corruption free. Will that ever happen??? I doubt it.

    I live in a country where 90% of my transactions are cashless

    It's handy, just means I don't have to go to the atm so often


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    numerologistic
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    Jonny7 wrote: »
    I live in a country where 90% of my transactions are cashless

    It's handy, just means I don't have to go to the atm so often

    I could see a lot of countries like that going back to Barter.


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    coffee_cake
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    It's useful to have as an option, but no, I certainly wouldn't want all privacy removed like that. They have enough snooping powers as it is


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    Sergeant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    How would stoners pay drug dealers for their weed?


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    Dravokivich
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    I don't see cash as a matter of protecting privacy. I don't like the dependancy on other factors to go cashless. Such as the availability of credit card devices. Not everywhere uses'em. Then what's needed for the device if there was one, an online connection and power source. I couldn't be confident that that is always going to be available.
    Sergeant wrote: »
    How would stoners pay drug dealers for their weed?

    Favours ;)


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    jester77
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    IM0 wrote: »
    rinse them you tit

    water costs money now!


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    jester77
    Registered Users Posts: 11,262 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Sergeant wrote: »
    How would stoners pay drug dealers for their weed?

    direct debit or standing order if they are a regular customer


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    numerologistic
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭numerologistic


    bluewolf wrote: »
    It's useful to have as an option, but no, I certainly wouldn't want all privacy removed like that. They have enough snooping powers as it is

    After that NSA saga I wouldn't trust a full blown cashless society.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Sergeant wrote: »
    How would stoners pay drug dealers for their weed?
    Technical expenses covers a multitude of sins.


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    geeky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    In a word, no. A world where Fidelma Healy-Earmes can become a legislator is a world where I don't trust the Government to monitor what's good for me.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    Would you agree to a cashless society if it meant low levels of tax evasion, crime etc, but meant all your transactions were traceable?
    No, and besides it doesn't mean end of any crime whatsoever.

    A cashless society just means the bankers own your sorry butt 100%, that's not a good future at all.


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    darkhorse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭darkhorse


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    Would you agree to a cashless society if it meant low levels of tax evasion, crime etc, but meant all your transactions were traceable?

    I would agree to a cashless society, as I am cashless at least 3 days a week, so I wouldn't find it a very big transition.:(


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    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    It could be a predecessor to a one world currency which wouldn't be good.


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    JD DABA
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    I want to hear what Mr Srnub thinks of this.


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