The End of Cash?

[lance gt]

I guess you haven't walked up to a cash register with cash in hand lately then.

Take rolls of pennies, or nickels with you and see how the store owner likes your cash. Was a time store owners would gladly take US currency here, but now it's not worth losing money on, waiting for it to get past par, which looks doubtful.

Ever see the look on a clerk's face when they have to make change? Cash is passe in real worth, it's coming down to human value now.

 

[sr71plt]

Maybe I have no trouble at cast registers with cash because I don't do any of those snotty things. Sorry it didn't work out for you.

 

[lance gt]

Maybe I have no trouble at cast registers with cash because I don't do any of those snotty things. Sorry it didn't work out for you.

Pffffft

 

[sr71plt]

Yeah, well, it's rather a numbnuts attitude to be sticking your chin out and saying cash isn't accepted at cash registers anymore--at least on the North American continent--and then to think up silly scenarios to "prove" your point.

 

[lovecraft68]

Take rolls of pennies, or nickels with you and see how the store owner likes your cash. Was a time store owners would gladly take US currency here, but now it's not worth losing money on, waiting for it to get past par, which looks doubtful.

Ever see the look on a clerk's face when they have to make change? Cash is passe in real worth, it's coming down to human value now.

The look on the clerks face is one of confusion because our sorry excuse of a school system lets kids learn on computers rather than do an actual math so they are upset because they can't add.

And let me tell you another point.

When I had my retail store I LOVED cash! know why? Because then I didn;t have to report every sale and do what all the big businesses do, cheat the state out of some taxes.

That's another reason for a "cashless" society so the only people screwing the government is the government employees.

 

[lance gt]

Yeah, well, it's rather a numbnuts attitude to be sticking your chin out and saying cash isn't accepted at cash registers anymore--at least on the North American continent--and then to think up silly scenarios to "prove" your point.

I took rolls of pennies and nickels in the amount of $10 and filled my gas can. The clerk wouldn't accept it. Told me it was too much change and wanted credit, debit or a bill. I left it on the counter and walked out. He actually took down my plate number, but I'm sure he was politely told in this country, we accept rolled coin as currency. Cash is cash oh fucked-up one. Pennies are worth more melted down than face value.

I remember when Americans wouldn't accept Ca. money, because they thought it was play money and worthless, because it wasn't all green like theirs. Now they seek it out like gold. Without Canada's support, the States would crumble in a week. It ain't cash that keeps the wheels of business turning in America, it's the value of the people and what they do. We have a 10th of the pop. of the US, just a bit more than the pop. of New York city, yet we have maintained a steady growth in the value of our dollar, all because of what Canadians can do. The people are our cash, not the 'play money' we carry in our pockets. We think our money is funny, that's why we call them Loonies and Twoonies and make them pretty colours.

Money is worthless, plain and simple. It's only paper with pretty pictures and numbers on it. People make that paper worth something, like I stated originally.

It gets frustrating having to keep explaining how things work, to you. Start catching on, or you'll have to be sent on the short bus to the special school. Run Forrest, run.

 

[lovecraft68]

I took rolls of pennies and nickels in the amount of $10 and filled my gas can. The clerk wouldn't accept it. Told me it was too much change and wanted credit, debit or a bill. I left it on the counter and walked out. He actually took down my plate number, but I'm sure he was politely told in this country, we accept rolled coin as currency. Cash is cash oh fucked-up one. Pennies are worth more melted down than face value.

I remember when Americans wouldn't accept Ca. money, because they thought it was play money and worthless, because it wasn't all green like theirs. Now they seek it out like gold. Without Canada's support, the States would crumble in a week. It ain't cash that keeps the wheels of business turning in America, it's the value of the people and what they do. We have a 10th of the pop. of the US, just a bit more than the pop. of New York city, yet we have maintained a steady growth in the value of our dollar, all because of what Canadians can do. The people are our cash, not the 'play money' we carry in our pockets. We think our money is funny, that's why we call them Loonies and Twoonies and make them pretty colours.

Money is worthless, plain and simple. It's only paper with pretty pictures and numbers on it. People make that paper worth something, like I stated originally.

It gets frustrating having to keep explaining how things work, to you. Start catching on, or you'll have to be sent on the short bus to the special school. Run Forrest, run.

Not for nothing the one reason to me and many that cash will never be worthless is that it is the only way that people (meaning big brother/government and computer viruses)

CANNOT TRACK EVERY FUCKING LITTLE THING I PURCHASE

And to many of us that is worth something.

 

[lance gt]

Not for nothing the one reason to me and many that cash will never be worthless is that it is the only way that people (meaning big brother/government and computer viruses)

CANNOT TRACK EVERY FUCKING LITTLE THING I PURCHASE

And to many of us that is worth something.

I never registered my business and never charged tax on my work. I refuse to give the "Gov't" my money. I said earlier, a great deal of what I bring home, has been traded for with goods and services, all under the table.

I'm already beginning to live in a resource based conomy. Next omission in my life is the hydro and cable companies, other than internet connection. Amazing how much 'wealth' one can amass in short time. I want to get as far off the grid as I can.

 

[sr71plt]

I took rolls of pennies and nickels in the amount of $10 and filled my gas can. The clerk wouldn't accept it. Told me it was too much change and wanted credit, debit or a bill. I left it on the counter and walked out. He actually took down my plate number, but I'm sure he was politely told in this country, we accept rolled coin as currency. Cash is cash oh fucked-up one. Pennies are worth more melted down than face value.

Well, I don't see why you are surprised you were being treated like a dickhead--you were being an in-your-face dickhead.

Why is it that so many angry with life and antisocial people chat on porn discussion boards?

 

[sr71plt]

And we have the boobsie twins celebrating how they cheat on their taxes (and let the rest of us pick up the tab).

 

[lance gt]

Well, I don't see why you are surprised you were being treated like a dickhead--you were being an in-your-face dickhead.

Why us it so many angry with life and antisocial people chat on porn discussion boards?

Pffffft

 

[colddiesel]

Why is it that so many angry with life and antisocial people chat on porn discussion boards?

Any additional comment Pilot, would be entirely superfluous.

 

[TxRad]

Anyone who doesn't want that dirty old cash cluttering up their place, feel free to ship it to my house.

 

[Handley_Page]

Sweden is known for its utopian daydreams. However, I have been advised that twenty-somethings and under rarely ever have any cash and even more rarely use it for transactions.

Round here, the young don't have cash because they are broke, and so are their parents for much of the time.

It does make sense. But Identity theft will always be a danger.

It's getting so the new Boss wants the details of your Facebook account these days:-
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/21/facebook_employer_login_request/

A better reason to keep off it I have yet to hear.

I've thought for some time that it would be useful if we were all micro-chipped within six months of birth. It shouldn't be too difficult to have it serve as credit card, passport, driving licence etc etc. Personally I don't give a damn about the privacy issue, of which we already have far less than we might imagine.

As time goes on it might also serve as a sort of external hard drive to our brains, after all we are now being told that the future of the computer is end user devices; why can't men and women become those devices. We won't just be "plugging in" our electronic cars but also our (wireless) electronic selves)

Identity theft and suchlike might be dealt with by linking our unique electronic self to our unique DNA.

Nokia have invented something like it:-

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/21/nokia_magnets/

Anyone who doesn't want that dirty old cash cluttering up their place, feel free to ship it to my house.

Or mine !

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Not for nothing the one reason to me and many that cash will never be worthless is that it is the only way that people (meaning big brother/government and computer viruses)

CANNOT TRACK EVERY FUCKING LITTLE THING I PURCHASE

And to many of us that is worth something.

Theyll make possession of cash a felony. No more mattress stuffing.

 

[autoplot]

Money is worthless, plain and simple. It's only paper with pretty pictures and numbers on it. People make that paper worth something, like I stated originally.

The text of federal laws are just patterns of ink blasted onto paper! It's people who make them mean something!

Seriously, is this what passes for insight in your world?

Theyll make possession of cash a felony. No more mattress stuffing.

Sounds enforceable.

 

[lance gt]

The text of federal laws are just patterns of ink blasted onto paper! It's people who make them mean something!

Seriously, is this what passes for insight in your world?


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And it means something else in your world? If you think cash money has any value, better get in touch with reality. That piece of paper you hold in your hand today, is going to be worthless tomorrow. Don't take my word for it, the US dollar will tank at the end of this year and be worth as much as the German Duetchmark after WWII.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

And it means something else in your world? If you think cash money has any value, better get in touch with reality. That piece of paper you hold in your hand today, is going to be worthless tomorrow. Don't take my word for it, the US dollar will tank at the end of this year and be worth as much as the German Duetchmark after WWII.

Reichmark, dear. The Deutschemark was an artificial animal created by the Allies with a fixed official rate. America did the same with the South Vietnamese Piastre; its official rate was around 100 per dollar, but its black market rate was of lesser value.

 

[lance gt]

Reichmark, dear. The Deutschemark was an artificial animal created by the Allies with a fixed official rate. America did the same with the South Vietnamese Piastre; its official rate was around 100 per dollar, but its black market rate was of lesser value.

I stand corrected, thank you sweetie.