Credit cards, the world is running on them. Last time I checked there was just 5% cash in the world and all the rest is digits.
Do you pay for everything with your card? Most people are. I haven't ever paid for anything with a bank card maybe for a year 15 years ago or so, but since then I am always paying in cash. I am working on the street and handling cash and customers whilst selling a street magazine, and it is possible to pay with an app called Vipps. This is just a way of paying with your phone to transfer funds from your bank to another one who has the same bank, or even shops do accept it like we do with the magazine.
This last year, I've noticed more and more people come to buy a magerzine when see the sign saying that you can pay with Vipps (and Crypto!) which means they should bring out their phones to use an app, but no, they represent me the credit card! Whats that about?
Then I realized that everyone is now so very used to just taking out the card to pay for things, that any other form's of payment has been forgotten about. Many customers come to pay with the app. And its frustrating when the app doesn't work and the customer says "Id really like to buy one but this isn't working, sorry, bye!"
One time when I had just got some silver a while back, I was having a chat with a woman at the register in a different shop, I think I was looking for clay to use to pour silver in but anyway I asked her about the card payments and why is everyone doing it, and she says to me " Well, its for safety if there's no money around, then there's none to be stolen in robbery's."
Of course this is the reason put forward by the society, its for your safety. Question anything that is happening with this reason behind it. Since cards are being used, of course the robberys of shops would have gone down a lot but then people are forgetting how much is now being stolen by identity theft, or skimming the pin numbers and other important details, or some other means like a hack. Im pretty certain that more people have had more money stolen from cards than an actual robbery?
Someone said to me one time whilst I was shouting about banks, "Well someones got to look after my money havent they"!
People just don't get it, they have been formed into a shape through fear of loosing money and now they have a few problems of which maybe them themselves aren't even aware of.. (or maybe are beginning to?!)
The first being, that you have no Financial Freedoms if you carry no cash around with you. If there is something that you want to buy then did you realize that your not able to buy it, unless it has a card reader there and a Visa sticker somewhere showing?! This means that the only places that you can spend your money at are in establishment's that all add up to your Trueman show of a life. McDonalds, Burgerking, Clothes shops, Starfucks, bars and clubs, restaurants and supermarkets, are all part of your circle of slavery and most likely also the debt. Is it just ironic that they keep all this circling so constant that its become "normal" - and you never get to actually see or touch money? To me, there is no money, you work for nothing, you work for credit on a card that gets deducted each time you use it, until it flashes red.. and then you can pull out the backup one that your bank suggested you should have just in-case..
A women came to pay for a magazine and gave me a note that was out of issue mid June I think it was, and she swore down to me that it was real and Norwegian, but she just wouldn't accept it when I told her that it was now worthless because it had been replaced 7 weeks ago. This woman really did think I had gone mad, and went in to get it change, only to come and tell me its out of date now and new ones have been issued. She hadn't seen cash for so long, it had changed and was now actually worthless!
A very interesting fact I remember reading about how the mind works whilst paying with card.
When we pay with cash (can you remember those days?) we give some physical asset over to pay for the things we are buying, and if it happens to be, we would then receive our change which is also a physical asset. WE KNOW we just spent money and we know how much we got back, which is just common sense to the mind. If we pay with a card, we don't give anything out - we hand over our card (or used to anyhow before pin and chip came along), and then we get our card back and we put it back in out wallets or purses and off we go out of the shop.
What just happened there?!
I went in, got some things, went to the till, gave the card, got it back and walked out. I didn't actually spend anything because they gave it back. Of course we all know that the amount was deducted from the bank account, but the mind did get that part. This is how people fall into debt so easy. And this is part of the design set by your beautiful government.
FORGET YOUR DREAMS!
There's also the fact that because people gave no cash on them anymore, they are restricted to what they can buy like I said above. You often see musicians in the streets, or punks sitting with a cup, or someone making a juggling performance for example and these people decided to quit the rat-race and to find something different, living off of donations from the public.
I haven't bothered to play the guitar and sing on the street since a couple of years because you get nothing for it, just your face splashed over 1000 Facebook profiles and maybe a euro an hour. People say "Oh Id love to give you something" as they tap their pockets, "but I don't have any cash on me". This is one very clever way also to stop you from seeing us freaks entertaining you whilst you go spend your rewarded wages and mindlessly consuming, so that you will forget your dreams or traveling the world as you did when you was younger, or learning how to play an instrument or even having the time to learn how to juggle. They want you to keep feeding the system, and never to quit to go follow your dreams..
I often refer to films, because if its been written in a movie then its bound to happen in the future - whats going on with that then?! - and there is a great film called "In Time" or just "Time" in other country's. Its set in the future and people are just working to put time on a life clock that is displayed on the wrist (Above). There's a scene in the film where a little begger girl asks the main actor if she could get a minute and held out her wrist for him to transfer some time.
If a government wants the people in the city's to either just be there to work or to consume, then begger's and street artists are not going to help in this tactic and so what a perfect way to get everyone to conform and for them to be registered- to eradicate the use of cash.
Normalized so quickly
For me, it seems that this has all became the norm very quickly, paying with mobile phones also is picking up over the place and also rare stories of people getting the microchip to pay with, just like in that film! Add this all up to a jobless world in 10 years, and it will be exactly just like that film "In Time".. Its even written in the title itself! So cash is nearly history, and we all know what comes after cash if you would like true financial freedom in the future.. STEEM! Well ok not just steem, but sure steem will certainly be accepted by many people, due to the fact that we have a very good reference to go with transactions - our Steemit profile and Rep and a strong currency.
I wonder how long it will take until the news programs say, "well people, theres no cash anymore and its all digital for your own safety and regulated just for bank account to bank account use to stop fraud. establishments are now creating there own blockchains to run on as its safer and much cheaper, and more trusting - BUT NO - this is nothing of the same kind as those "cryptocurrencys!" - When its blatantly obvious that they just aren't needed anymore for anyone to be standing in the middle of transactions.
A macdonalds Blockchain with MCD currency to pay with for terrible fast foods? 10 years from now, could be easily already normalized due to safety.
What days we are are witnessing, out kids will most likely never know of cash money, so best get them a ledger wallet and "My first A.narchy B.lockchian C.rypto book" instead for the next birthday.
Have you started to carry cash with you again , or are you believing the fear tactics from the governments and media?
Thanks for reading I would love to hear your thoughts, and also reasons I havent covered on how a cashless society benefit's the governments and not the people- I'd love to hear them !
Nice to put a "face" to a name!
Big love! 
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