I’ve seen them all over the city. I’ve no idea who is behind them.
As if anyone would give a shit about following the type of people who put up these stickers.
Afraid the government is tracking you, as if our government is competent enough to to track anything.
I only pay for things with my customised personal cheques.
Same demographic as the anti refugee protests probably
That said cash should always be available and accepted legal tender surely cannot be refused at the whim of a provider.
Big brain
I’m sure the govt have better things to be doing than tracking this lads dole money
About 20m from where they destroyed the Lidl…
I found a leaflet full of shite like that left on a shelf in a shop in Longford. It looked like a 20 euro note until you turned it over. I thought it was going to be about Jesus, but went straight for the conspiracy angle about cash and social credit, etc.
Let them track away I say. If there’s someone assigned to track my purchases he’s going to be shocking bored.
Tap minus charge equals track. ok man.
I don’t know why the government cares that I tapped for a filthy kebab on Saturday night.
I was in Berlin in September and almost everywhere was INSISTENT on cash only. There’s ATMs everywhere also!
People over there explained to me that Germans prefer their transactions/business to be their own and don’t want banks knowing what they’re doing (fetish clubs, drinking etc etc)
I never really thought about it until then, now that I’m back I do think everytime I tap my card “there’s a record of all my transactions/movements somewhere”
*goes home and boots up his PC to print more posters
I can understand why some people take issue with using cards, especially for smaller transactions.
They if you buy a couple of items from a small shop and their total margin is say, one euro (to keep it simple). If you pay by card (very) roughly 5 to 15 cent is going to financial services entities, e.g. banks, card providers, et cetera.
If a person were to pay for the items in cash at least the shopkeeper keeps all of the margin.
Obviously this person hasn’t been to Krispy Kreme.
Revenue is watching.
Once CBDCs come in were screwed
I work in Dublin and you’d be amazed how many people express this belief when they’re paying for something. I’ll go to get the card machine and it’s always a snarky “actually – I’ll pay cash, that’s still allowed”. Ironically even though it happens multiple times per day, every person thinks they’re “unique” when they pay cash, like they’re looking for a fight.
It’s a concern about gov’t tracking and control linked up with the conspiracy theories about the great reset/replacement with the UN, WHO, The World Bank, and whoever else they feel have nefarious plans. George Soros & “The Globalists” probably play a part in many versions of the tales conspiracy believers love to tell.
Who doesn’t love spooky stories, right?!
Wild conspiracies aside – yes, every time you tap a card not only does that transaction end up with the card processor and the bank it also (in most cases) goes to data enrichment companies (whose sole purpose is to mine that data for information) which is then used by banks and marketing firms (and anyone else that pays for it). Still – I wouldn’t worry, when you carry a phone you are carrying a combination of a location, audio and video bug – and the government has used this in court (yes it’s been challenged, but they still can) so yep – looney lamppost guy has it correct. The thing is of course not to look at what the government do but what they could do (see china) which private companies already do at massive scale (meta, Google, apple) – basically everything you do electronically is captured and it’s of interest to someone (mostly just to sell you more stuff) but it’s still captured. Google’s Eric Schmidt (the least looney of the brin/page/Schmidt) trio’s take is the following – “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
People worried about tapping cards while posting everything on social media.
Imagine a life with that much paranoia
As if they give a flying fuck about the movements of the useless fuck who printed this.
Apparently cash *isn’t* king as apparently shops aren’t currently legally required to take cash, which to me is fucking mental!
Everytime you tap and use your cards. The bank gets a bit, the companies who take care of transactions get a bit and the companies who you rent card machines get a bit. When you spend 10euro cash it’s still worth 10 euro to the receiver. When spent digitally it becomes is worth less and continues to devalue. As a biz owner myself I can feel this more and more as fewer use cash nowadays
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I’ve seen them all over the city. I’ve no idea who is behind them.
As if anyone would give a shit about following the type of people who put up these stickers.
Afraid the government is tracking you, as if our government is competent enough to to track anything.
I only pay for things with my customised personal cheques.
Same demographic as the anti refugee protests probably
That said cash should always be available and accepted legal tender surely cannot be refused at the whim of a provider.
Big brain
I’m sure the govt have better things to be doing than tracking this lads dole money
About 20m from where they destroyed the Lidl…
I found a leaflet full of shite like that left on a shelf in a shop in Longford. It looked like a 20 euro note until you turned it over. I thought it was going to be about Jesus, but went straight for the conspiracy angle about cash and social credit, etc.
Let them track away I say. If there’s someone assigned to track my purchases he’s going to be shocking bored.
Tap minus charge equals track. ok man.
I don’t know why the government cares that I tapped for a filthy kebab on Saturday night.
I was in Berlin in September and almost everywhere was INSISTENT on cash only. There’s ATMs everywhere also!
People over there explained to me that Germans prefer their transactions/business to be their own and don’t want banks knowing what they’re doing (fetish clubs, drinking etc etc)
I never really thought about it until then, now that I’m back I do think everytime I tap my card “there’s a record of all my transactions/movements somewhere”
*goes home and boots up his PC to print more posters
I can understand why some people take issue with using cards, especially for smaller transactions.
They if you buy a couple of items from a small shop and their total margin is say, one euro (to keep it simple). If you pay by card (very) roughly 5 to 15 cent is going to financial services entities, e.g. banks, card providers, et cetera.
If a person were to pay for the items in cash at least the shopkeeper keeps all of the margin.
Obviously this person hasn’t been to Krispy Kreme.
Revenue is watching.
Once CBDCs come in were screwed
I work in Dublin and you’d be amazed how many people express this belief when they’re paying for something. I’ll go to get the card machine and it’s always a snarky “actually – I’ll pay cash, that’s still allowed”. Ironically even though it happens multiple times per day, every person thinks they’re “unique” when they pay cash, like they’re looking for a fight.
It’s a concern about gov’t tracking and control linked up with the conspiracy theories about the great reset/replacement with the UN, WHO, The World Bank, and whoever else they feel have nefarious plans. George Soros & “The Globalists” probably play a part in many versions of the tales conspiracy believers love to tell.
Who doesn’t love spooky stories, right?!
Wild conspiracies aside – yes, every time you tap a card not only does that transaction end up with the card processor and the bank it also (in most cases) goes to data enrichment companies (whose sole purpose is to mine that data for information) which is then used by banks and marketing firms (and anyone else that pays for it). Still – I wouldn’t worry, when you carry a phone you are carrying a combination of a location, audio and video bug – and the government has used this in court (yes it’s been challenged, but they still can) so yep – looney lamppost guy has it correct. The thing is of course not to look at what the government do but what they could do (see china) which private companies already do at massive scale (meta, Google, apple) – basically everything you do electronically is captured and it’s of interest to someone (mostly just to sell you more stuff) but it’s still captured. Google’s Eric Schmidt (the least looney of the brin/page/Schmidt) trio’s take is the following – “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
People worried about tapping cards while posting everything on social media.
Imagine a life with that much paranoia
As if they give a flying fuck about the movements of the useless fuck who printed this.
Apparently cash *isn’t* king as apparently shops aren’t currently legally required to take cash, which to me is fucking mental!
Everytime you tap and use your cards. The bank gets a bit, the companies who take care of transactions get a bit and the companies who you rent card machines get a bit. When you spend 10euro cash it’s still worth 10 euro to the receiver. When spent digitally it becomes is worth less and continues to devalue. As a biz owner myself I can feel this more and more as fewer use cash nowadays
That’s not even what cash is king means