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  • 21-10-2012 01:08AM
    #1
    sellerbarry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭


    Hi all. Just a quick thought. When we all live in a cashless society, what will happen to all the bums on the streets?


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    #2
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    sellerbarry wrote: »
    Hi all. Just a quick thought. When we all live in a cashless society, what will happen to all the bums on the streets?

    Give them 3v vouchers.


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    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    They use contactless card devices


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    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    They'll be re-cycled.


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    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,652 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Considering there are still shops that insist that you buy goods totalling a minimum of €20 before they let you use a debit card, I'd say we've a while to go before we need to start worrying about that.


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    #6
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Can society ever really be cashless? I can't see it happening.


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    #7
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    sellerbarry wrote: »
    Hi all. Just a quick thought. When we all live in a cashless society, what will happen to all the bums on the streets?
    that's a quick thought at 1.10 am?

    hmmm.

    what comes into ur head around 4am?


    as for the bums, if they're cute, they get pinched, if flabby they get slapped.


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    TheBegotten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭TheBegotten


    Misleading thread title is misleading.


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    sellerbarry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭sellerbarry


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    that's a quick thought at 1.10 am?

    hmmm.

    what comes into ur head around 4am?


    as for the bums, if they're cute, they get pinched, if flabby they get slapped.
    Got asked for money 3 times today on henry street. Got me thinking


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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,724 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    If watching 'Demolition Man' has thought me anything, it's that they'll all live underground. Also, we'll have to wipe our arses with shells apparently.


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    #11
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    sellerbarry wrote: »
    Got asked for money 3 times today on henry street.

    That the henry street in towin?


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    #12
    sellerbarry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭sellerbarry


    squod wrote: »
    That the henry street in towin?
    yes


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    #13
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭eth0


    BitCoins please.


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    #14
    Seedy Arling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,002 ✭✭✭Seedy Arling


    I'm more of a tit man.


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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,724 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    sellerbarry wrote: »
    yes

    Which town? Borris-on-Ossory?


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    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    sellerbarry wrote: »
    Got asked for money 3 times today on henry street. Got me thinking
    ah, of course.

    well i assume in the future they just bend over and you em, swipe your card between the cheeks?

    a sort of bum's bum payment


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    Custardpi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    In the future we'll all have microchips implanted in our wrists which will cover all our data including our bank details. Charities can help to get the homeless theirs. If you want to donate you'll just swipe your wrist with his/hers plus probably a security code entered on your smart phone. Hey presto the "bum" has credit on his/her account. We'll laugh (though with a touch of nostalgia no doubt) at the idea of "loose change".


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    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    Custardpi wrote: »
    In the future we'll all have microchips implanted in our wrists which will cover all our data including our bank details. Charities can help to get the homeless theirs. If you want to donate you'll just swipe your wrist with his/hers plus probably a security code entered on your smart phone. Hey presto the "bum" has credit on his/her account. We'll laugh (though with a touch of nostalgia no doubt) at the idea of "loose change".
    could Southpark satirise that i wonder?


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    some random drunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 990 ✭✭✭some random drunk


    I'm disappointed this thread isn't about lovely girls arses.

    Anyways, I doubt we'll ever have a cashless society.


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    sellerbarry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭sellerbarry


    some random drunk wrote: »
    I'm disappointed this thread isn't about lovely girls arses.

    Anyways, I doubt we'll ever have a cashless society.
    explain your doubt please.


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    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    Custardpi wrote: »
    In the future we'll all have microchips implanted in our wrists which will cover all our data including our bank details.

    Not if you like having two hands you won't. Plenty of twelve year olds on bikes ready to do time for a mobile phone. Serious criminals will want your wages.


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    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,652 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Custardpi wrote: »
    In the future we'll all have microchips implanted in our wrists which will cover all our data including our bank details. Charities can help to get the homeless theirs. If you want to donate you'll just swipe your wrist with his/hers plus probably a security code entered on your smart phone. Hey presto the "bum" has credit on his/her account. We'll laugh (though with a touch of nostalgia no doubt) at the idea of "loose change".


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    kleefarr
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    They've all moved to Germany, where the money is. :rolleyes:


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    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    squod wrote: »
    Not if you like having two hands you won't. Plenty of twelve year olds on bikes ready to do time for a mobile phone. Serious criminals will want your wages.
    i see a movie script forming....

    a bad one.


    lol. yeah, that'd be fun. handy for the crims. *cough*


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    Sauve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    It'll make buying drugs a tad more complicated when you have to hang around, swipe wrists and enter a pin before he hands over the baggy...


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    Custardpi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    could Southpark satirise that i wonder?

    I don't see why not. The episode which joked about people looking for change "Night of the Living Homeless" iirc was less about the medium of exchange involved & more to do with the middle class fallacy that simply handing someone some coins would in any meaningful way alleviate the socio-economic problems which led to them being in that position.


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    some random drunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 990 ✭✭✭some random drunk


    sellerbarry wrote: »
    explain your doubt please.

    Very well then. I doubt we'll ever get to the stage where cash is completely eliminated, sure used less, maybe far less, but ever completely eliminated? I just don't see it happening. People like having cash, physically holding it, it's somehow reassuring that they actually have it. Some people are still somewhat fearful about credit/debit cards and the possibilities of fraud.

    Convenience would also be a factor with very small transactions. Its simpler to buy a packet of crisps/a newspaper etc with cash than a card.


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    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭eth0


    some random drunk wrote: »
    Very well then. I doubt we'll ever get to the stage where cash is completely eliminated, sure used less, maybe far less, but ever completely eliminated? I just don't see it happening. People like having cash, physically holding it, it's somehow reassuring that they actually have it. Some people are still somewhat fearful about credit/debit cards and the possibilities of fraud.

    Convenience would also be a factor with very small transactions. Its simpler to buy a packet of crisps/a newspaper etc with cash than a card.

    Paying at car boot sales would be a fierce nuisance without cash


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    Custardpi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    Sauve wrote: »
    It'll make buying drugs a tad more complicated when you have to hang around, swipe wrists and enter a pin before he hands over the baggy...


    *naive optimism* By that stage we'll have finally started treating people like adults & decided to legalise & regulate drugs so that won't be an issue *naive optimism*


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    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    Custardpi wrote: »
    I don't see why not. The episode which joked about people looking for change "Night of the Living Homeless" iirc was less about the medium of exchange involved & more to do with the middle class fallacy that simply handing someone some coins would in any meaningful way alleviate the socio-economic problems which led to them being in that position.
    so, that's a yes?


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    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    eth0 wrote: »
    Paying at car boot sales would be a fierce nuisance without cash
    surely the traditional bare knuckle fight would suffice?


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