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Cash is the only means of payment that enables direct in-person payments w/immediate settlement &w/out involvement of any 3rd party or use of electronic equipment.

In many regions people are being forced to patronize banks. This community is for that discussion regardless of which side of the war on cash you are on.

The war on cash is war on privacy. (indeed the mod is biased)

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!climate_action_individual@slrpnk.net
!fightforprivacy@feddit.ch
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Cashless money society, forced banking 💳, and the War on Cash 💰 !cash@slrpnk.net
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The increasing enshitification of banks + increasingly forced banking ⇒ **forced enshitification** 0 activistPnk 1 »
Belgian banks demand proof of cash sources, while German ATMS do not print receipts 0 ciferecaNinjo 2 »
Dude could not simply deposit €50 cash into his Belgian bank account 0 ciferecaNinjo 1 »
Now illegal in Belgium for lawyers to accept cash payments, according to a lawyer. Thus, no due process for unbanked people? (fedia.io) 0 ciferecaNinjo 1 »
How are ppl okay with cashless society when bank cards that should work get refused for unknown reasons? Are ppl not traveling? 0 activistPnk 1 »
South Korea is cashless (www.seoulz.com) 0 activistPnk 1 »
The UK has a cash protection lobby called the Payment Choice Alliance -- (we need more of these!) (www.paymentchoicealliance.org) 0 activistPnk 1 »
Banks in the US need not tell you who they share their data with. And recipients of your data need not tell you which bank shared the info with them, even when breached! And yes, this happened to me. 0 activistPnk 1 »
Another reason for Americans to ditch banks/CUs: the GOP et al (Trump, Musk, DOGE) have just neutered the CFPB. Your banking protections have been revoked. (newrepublic.com) 0 activistPnk 1 »
If a law is frequently disregarded, lawmakers change the law to match the practice. Orgs that refuse cash are leveraging this. But we can hit back (like a couple Germans did). 0 activistPnk 1 »
Dutch banks are advising people to keep cash at home. The wisdom of Sweden and Norway is also improving as they backpeddle from cashless plans (www.theguardian.com) 0 activistPnk 1 »
How to hog disk storage space of banks that are KYC over-achievers (linux version) 0 activistPnk 1 »
Extinction Rebellion is not happy with banks -- so they have a Money Rebellion mission and a “debt disobedience” campaign (extinctionrebellion.uk) 0 activistPnk 1 »
High street banks are funding some of the world’s most notorious arms companies. (www.ethicalconsumer.org) 0 activistPnk 1 »
How banks work; explained interview style (c.im) 0 activistPnk 1 »
Bank bounced someone for being disloyal, then asked for a favor b/c a new customer inherited the phone number of the person they booted (bank s/w could not handle it) (veganism.social) 0 activistPnk 1 »
Paid $2500 to a contractor, got $25 in cashback rewards. Fuck this. Contractors should give a cash discount for avoiding credit card. 0 activistPnk 1 »
Indiana police have dogs that sniff specifically for cash at the US’s 2nd biggest FedEx hub, then they simply keep the money (eu.indystar.com) 0 activistPnk 1 »
Belgian woman was interrogated for depositing €300 cash into her bank account 0 activistPnk 1 »
Russian American ballerina on trial for treason over $50 pro-Ukraine donation faces up to ~~20~~ 15 years incarceration (www.guardian2zotagl6tmjucg3lrhxdk4dw3lhbqnkvvkywawy3oqfoprid.onion) 0 activistPnk 1 »
Are credit unions better than big banks? [5 min] (www.youtube.com) 0 solo 1 »
The EU gives everyone a right to open a “basic” bank account, but some banks put the application exclusively online 0 activistPnk 1 »
(UK) Mortgages can be refused if you consume alcohol or tobacco -- so pay with cash, of course (12ft.io) 0 activistPnk 1 »
What Is a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)? (www.investopedia.com) 0 solo 1 »
Netherlands plans to ban cash payments over €3,000 (business.gov.nl) 0 activistPnk 1 »
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About this forum

Cash is the only means of payment that enables direct in-person payments w/immediate settlement &w/out involvement of any 3rd party or use of electronic equipment.

In many regions people are being forced to patronize banks. This community is for that discussion regardless of which side of the war on cash you are on.

The war on cash is war on privacy. (indeed the mod is biased)

related communities (decentralized only)

closely related:
☠ !cashless_society@nano.garden (ghost node) ← only reachable from instances that federated to that community before nano.garden disappeared

loosely related:
!offgrid@slrpnk.net
!climate_action_individual@slrpnk.net
!fightforprivacy@feddit.ch
!personalfinance@sopuli.xyz
!right_to_unplug@sopuli.xyz

1 members · 58 topics · 55 posts
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