Cash will be totally electronic. That does bother me a little. I remember that in the Soviet Union under Brezhnev if you actually spoke out, they didn't put you in prison, they invalidated your ration card. So you were rendered destitute on the spot.
Take it away and replace it with government (and the corporations that pander to it) controled freedom in the form of your survival card, and you literally control freedom, life and death.
With cash, on the other hand, it's yours. Dig a hole and bury it or use it as you will.
Thanks Zin for pointing this out.
I wish that one of the ten amendments to the constituion enshirned the right to have cash.
Can you imagine what it would do to the hobby among other things? This probably belongs on the P&R board, but I shudder at the thought of Big Brother having the ability to monitor every transaction that a private citizen makes.
Someday, probably in the not too distant future, someone, probably in the name of the war on terror, or the war on drugs, will make such a proposal. I just hope we have the will to resist.
The face: Alfred E. Neuman. The Latin words around the pyramid: "Utwhay, emay orryway?" The bird on the back: a plucked chicken. The motto across the back: "Don't spend it all in one place."
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