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#cashless

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Maude Nificent

#AusPol #Cash #Cashless

as much as electronic banking is convenient, i always keep some cash on me (it’s easy to find cos fren gives me cash for her share when i pay household bills online)

we should always have a plan b, or scatter eggs across several baskets etc. so i have more than ine card with more than one bank, and have cash for when the world goes to shit (as it regularly does) individuals need a way to carry on.

and relying on a very unreliable nbn would be a *national* security mistake on a par with buying US subs.

Why these Australians want you to withdraw some cash today
sbs.com.au/news/article/why-th

SBS NewsWhy these Australians want you to withdraw some cash todayA group of advocates for coins and notes is calling on Australians to ensure cash remains viable by making Tuesday a mass cash withdrawal day.
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Paco Hope #resist

They are coming to enshittify money. Fight for cash. Don’t let them take it away.

Cash represents money that doesn’t cost money to use. It is a public good. All people can use cash There is no public good electronic transaction. (In the UK bank-to-bank transfers are free and easy by law. No reason to have Zelle or Venmo, not so in the US) We must protect cash.

Public libraries bother digital publishers because someone can read the book without paying for it. Cash bothers banks and big tech companies because you can spend it without paying them. Banks, credit card companies, and big tech (think ApplePay. SamsungPay, etc), want to charge you money for you to use your money. They also get transaction data that they can monetise in various ways (selling to you, selling the data, etc).

I experienced this last week. In the US it’s still free to deposit a paper check, but virtually any “wire” or electronic transfer has a fee. I signed a home equity line of credit and I was getting some proceeds. I had 2 options: “electronic check” or wire transfer. Wire transfer costs $20. “Electronic check” was free.

“Electronic check” is when they email me a PDF and I print it. Then, I take photographs of the printout with my bank’s mobile app for depositing checks. Takes more than a day to clear, but totally free.

Don’t let them take cash away. Fight for it. Use it some so people can see it being used.
#cash #cashless #money

theguardian.com/money/2025/mar

The Guardian · ‘A fundamental right’: UK high street chains and restaurants challenged over refusal to accept cashBy Jon Ungoed-Thomas
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Danie van der Merwe

Say goodbye to parking tickets in South Africa

Once you’ve used a parking app at a shopping mall for parking, you’ll never look back. No queues to pay, no carrying cash, it keeps record of what you paid where, it is quicker to enter and exit a mall, no struggling with a machine that does not acc ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/say-goodbye-to

GadgeteerZA · Say goodbye to parking tickets in South AfricaOnce you've used a parking app at a shopping mall for parking, you'll never look back. No queues to pay, no carrying cash, it keeps record of what you paid
#cashless#southafrica#technology
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