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You must have been Labor's campaign manager.
 
Theres a reason why nan and pop kept it under the mattress.
Run on banks. Say goodbye to your money altogether in some instances.

In the event of war.

Cyber attacks.

Govt intervention.

And banks charge you for transactions.

No society should go completely cashless. I'm seeing a lot of small businesses going back to cash.

I like the convenience of a card but you can lose track of those taps.
 
moXJO said:
Theres a reason why nan and pop kept it under the mattress.
Run on banks. Say goodbye to your money altogether in some instances.

In the event of war.

Cyber attacks.

Govt intervention.
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I know there are "prepper" types who don't trust cash. They accumulate gold, silver etc, commodities with "real value".

If you want a functioning society, you've got to trust someone sometime. The cash of a fiat currency is based on a promise, not on true value. In the same way, digital transactions are based on a promise.
 
Digital is easier to go down though.
Not against it, just that cash should be kept in the economy. Quantum computing could cause all kinds of havoc as well.
 
My local cake/pie shop does not accept cash at all. Buying something there is not compulsory, it is a voluntary process.

The food/wine festival I went to last weekend was totally cashless as well. It was also not compulsory. Those that did not wish to participate that way did not enter the festival.

Pretty sure that the application process for welfare is not compulsory. Pretty sure that the welfare application is a voluntary process.

SIMPLES.
 
So all our data is there, ready to be criminalised or sold to corporations or used against us somehow. You bought roses and dinner for your wife while she was out of town, maybe she would like to know, you were at this shop on a particular day and spent $x on grog etc...

I got a email the other day saying I had been "spotted" watching pr0n because my email address was hacked on a forum website where I had an account (not this one).

The more information there is about us the more likely it will be used against us somehow. Our privacy and our freedom is at and end, and there isn't much we can do about it.
 

Very true Rumpy, the World is changing, quicker than I thought it would, in a way it is good to be on the home straight.
 
Not egg sucking here hopefully.
Aside: Before you open an email, If you hover your mouse over the email "sender" the actual real name of the account sender should be displayed in a "pop-up". If on the off chance your setup does not support that then there are other ways to do that without having to open the actual email.
Also, most email software allows the use of multiple aliases ...... these can be very handy to avoid/source the problem you are saying.
 

Thanks, good advice. The problem is that the email came from (seemingly) my account which had been "pwned" via a data breach on another forum.
 
I went to a Tattersalls agency in my local shopping center to buy a birthday card. Went to "tap" to pay for it, as I do with any other business, and was told "they only accept cash here". In a TattsLotto shop they don't accept cards?

A very curious business decision they've made here. I'm not sure if people who buy Tatts tickets are more likely to normally use cash, or whether the franchise/franchisee simply doesn't want to deal with cards. If the latter is the case, I'm sure it annoys a lot of their customers.
 
CBA went down and my wife cannot access any off her money or pay any bills. It was funny till she took mine.
CBA truly made it a cashless society.
 
Banks going down seems to be happening a lot these days - which implies they have little or no redundancy in their systems - which further implies instability and dubious security. Scary really.
 

OK I can quite safely safe that a cashless society will NOT happen.
After 6 months I have not had one response to help make Australia a cashless society from my previous offer, but I will persist for those of you want to change your mind. DONT RISK going cashless by just doing share trades (as I have done). I will guarantee my results and far quicker.

Hurry while the offer lasts before I take this offer overseas in an effort to outdo scammers.
 
I wonder if CBA's issues were related to a software 'upgrade', it always seems like an oxymoron, upgrades seem to cause problems when they are meant to fix them.
 
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