{"id":895,"date":"2024-03-07T04:52:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T04:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/cashlessness-and-the-road-to-totalitarianism\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T04:52:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T04:52:28","slug":"cashlessness-and-the-road-to-totalitarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/cashlessness-and-the-road-to-totalitarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cashless Road to Totalitarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During the Great Covid Scare, some restaurants stopped accepting  cash payments for health reasons.   Whatever the intention, that is a policy that aids and abets an incipient police state.  Exaggerate some health threat. Inspire fear in a gullible populace of highly suggestible conformists. Ban cash in the name of public health. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Result? Everyone making payments leaves a paper trail. People can be monitored as to where they go, where they shop, what they eat and drink., what they read. Too many visits to Joe's Real BBQ for paleolithic vittles and your social credit score goes down. Get the picture?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Corollary:  Cede control of health care delivery to the government and they can tell you how to live, what to eat, drink, ride. Ride a motorcycle? Dangerous activity! Government has a reason to ban them if they are picking up the tab for health care.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Addendum: Are we a gullible populace of highly suggestible conformists? Well, do you remember all the people walking around in the open air wearing masks? Or people driving alone in their cars with windows up wearing masks?   <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Where is the independence of mind? Are we Americans or obedient Germans?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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CBDC? Up yours, fascist.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the Great Covid Scare, some restaurants stopped accepting  cash payments for health reasons.   Whatever the intention, that is a policy that aids and abets an incipient police state.  Exaggerate some health threat. Inspire fear in a gullible populace of highly suggestible conformists. Ban cash in the name of public health.   Result? Everyone making … Continue reading “The Cashless Road to Totalitarianism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}