Google dominated search. Google search sucks now, there’s no equivalent alternatives.
Banks dominate digital money. They don’t suck too much on a day to day basis… Yet.
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TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 months agoGotta disagree with this entirely. The only benefit I actually see the cash is that homeless folks don’t currently have great access to digital systems, which could be resolved if desired. What else is there?
theneverfox@pawb.social 5 months ago
centof@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Not allowing the government/banks the ability to freeze or seize your money because you did something they don’t approve of.
Not giving the government/big companies a log of how you spend your money.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have never once heard of an innocent person’s assets being frozen. That’s a nuclear option that’s not often used. I’m certainly never keeping my assets in cash anyhow, as that’s fucking bonkers.
centof@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Just because you haven’t heard of it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. It is a big world and everyone only sees their small piece of it.
The Canadian government did recently it with the trucker protests. The US did it with operation Choke Point starting in 2013. It targeted 20+ categories of merchants including porn stars, cable box descramblers, and money transfer networks.
The government routinely misuses the ‘justice’ system to wrongfully imprison people. Is it so hard to believe they will do the same thing with money? The government is not a neutral arbitrator of who is innocent. No one is innocent. But the government allows some people to be treated as more innocent than others.
Cashless forces everyone to cede control of their money to the government through the banks. Do you want the government to be able to get a list of everyone who purchases abortion pills? Can you see how such an ability can be easily abused by government? Assuming the government will always be friendly to you is a false assumption.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You did not demonstrate any of those examples were unjustified. they probably were
I do not expect the government to always behave, obviously because I am alive I have seen plenty of counterexamples.
However it’s beyond insane to suggest keeping my life savings in cash is even close to being less risky than using a bank. It’s ludicrous to suggest that. Do you understand that? It’s not subjective.
Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
IIRC the protests in Canada were also super controversial, especially for the people who lived there at the time.
I will not get into that here, though.
If you aren’t keeping your life savings in cash and you wouldn’t trust digital currency, how would you propose your idea?
Even stuff like bitcoin would be susceptible to your concerns about government overeach. Investing could also easily be a crapshoot, because your entire life saving would still be reliant on someone who doesn’t know or care you.
What do you suggest?