Posted on 10/11/2017 9:43:03 AM PDT by markomalley
Of course in the modern age of cellphone to cellphone money transactions that’s just not really true anymore.
Use it or lose it. I do about half my buying in cash. Just because ...
One other function of cash is that it serves, during no power situations, to allow commerce rather than forcing people to trash grocery stores in order to feed their families.
A cashless society is a major step on the road to abject tyranny.
During Ike we had no power for three weeks. Cell phones were empty after three days.
Most people have cell phone charger adapters for their cars, don’t they? There are solar and hand-crank chargers, even camp stove chargers powered by heat from the fire also.
I wasn’t talking about the power, I was talking about the track-ability. There’s so many paths to e-commerce now with so many transactions it’s almost as anonymous as cash.
I recently had one of those Wal Mart branch banks request my name when I simply asked to make change for two twenty dollar bills. That one kind of threw me back. Really? To make change? Freakin’ Orwellian.
I have that novel “Warday” in my personal library.
Rather terrifying, but very well-written.
I always use cash in restaurants too. I had a prepaid debit card drained after eating at a restaurant. Only had about $100 on it.
Eventualy got it back but the debit card company wanted me to contact all the vendors and demand the money back. That got about half of it.
The remainder came after I sent letters to the remaining vendors and the debit card company that if funds weren’t restored within a week I would be writing the FTC, the banking commissions in both the vendor’s state and the debit card companys state, and filing complaints with the better business bureau in both states.
Money came back.
“My credit card was cancelled after someone tried to buy something expensive. Try being overseas when that happens. Having electricity doesn’t help. No such things as travelers checks anymore. Might as well stand on the corner and sing.”
I’ve traveled internationally a lot. Also, family and I were expats in Shanghai, PCR two years. You can purchase/charge up to whatever your credit limit is just about anywhere in the world. However, before you go overseas you must call your credit card customer service and inform them where you will be traveling to and approximate days you will be there. Even though you’ve done these things if an unusually large purchase is made or a purchase is made that doesn’t align with your buying history profile expect CC security to send you a text asking you to confirm or deny the purchase. A good practice as far as I’m concerned.
Same here, though we are cashless for most other purchases. The 1% Visa rebate is an incentive.
Was that “Warday and the journey onward / by Whitley Strieber and James W. Kunetka”? It was the only one on file at the library.
You do not waste the gas in your car to charge your cell phone. The car has only two functions after a hurricane:
To get food and medicine.
To get out of the area.
That's the one.
I live in an area that has fairly frequent power outage due to storms, sometimes even hurricanes make it inland this far. I've had the roof blown off my house before due to a hurricane. If you have no other means of charging the thing, yes you certainly do use your car charger to power up your cell phone.
If the roads are clear enough to even get out of your neighborhood, if they're clear enough get groceries or medicine, then they're clear enough to do a heck of a lot of things like going to find gas. Might be quite a drive, but still. And if you've got vehicles sitting in your drive that are low on gas in the aftermath of a hurricane, somebody's either not paying attention or pretty dumb. That's the only fuel storage a lot of people have, the gas tanks of their cars.
If you’re in an area that gets power outages, get a solar cellphone charger.
Gas is too valuable and hard to get then to waste on charging phones.
That ‘hurricane high’ you get after the storm passes means clear hot days so you can keep those devices charged while you wait for the power to be restored.
Thanks For THAT!
Governments will always cloak their goals with what you've stated and for security/crime fighting reasons.
Think of the implications to a ca$hle$$ society. The government will know every single transaction, every purchase, every movement. Scary if ya think about it for a spell.
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