Extremism, you say? Well, based on today's parliamentary proceedings alone, how about anyone who still defended water privatisation, anyone who supported the Government's refusal to require businesses to accept payment in cash, and anyone who opposed, as was alas done successfully, Diane Abbott's attempt to require the Assisted Suicide Bill Committee to hear evidence from the Hourglass elder abuse charity and from Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse?
In France, they have Article 642-3 of the penal code, which bans traders from refusing cash payment. We need that here. No, the legal tender thing does not cover it. You are not in debt to the vendor until you have the goods. A suspicious number of those who decry us sceptics about the cashless society also claim that we are under constant threat of cyberattacks, and a surprising number of those who are forthright against the cashless society are enthusiasts for cryptocurrencies, about which the clue is in the name.
Cashless is to track every penny we spend, crypto is to put currencies beyond the reach of regulators and governments and therefore put the financial system beyond democratic oversight and control.
ReplyDeleteAnd the combination of the two is that level of tracking by those unaccountable corporations.
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