‘The Cashless Society is Almost Here’

November 30th, 2012

I first heard about the cashless society back around 1988. By 2000, cash would be gone, or so the stories went. haha.

Now, in 2012, the cashless society is almost here…

I’d say that it’s closer to being here than it was in 1988, but I wouldn’t be surprised if people who are waiting for this to happen will be using walking frames and wondering, “Is it here yet?”

Why isn’t the cashless system in place yet?

Drugs.

The illicit drug trade runs mostly on cash, which is then laundered through the banking system. If someone can explain to me how the usual suspects will continue to profit from the illicit drug trade in a cashless system, I’d be all ears. And no, a few pot heads paying for their stuff with Bitcoin in the San Francisco Bay Area doesn’t cut it as an explanation.

We currently have institutionalized money laundering of (potentially) hundreds of billions of dollars per year. How does that happen when every single transaction, no matter how small, goes into a permanent database?

There have been no technological barriers to establishing a cashless system for at least 20 years. And in practice, most people function as if they are in a cashless system already. So, what’s the hang up?

It’s drugs.

Via: 21stCenturyWire:

Among the long list of items bundled by consensus reality merchants under the banner of ‘conspiracy theory’, is a world without cash – where technocrats rule over the populace, and everything and anything is exchanged via plastic and RFID chips.

In this sterile and controlled Orwellian hi-tech society, the idea of cash being passed from hand to hand would be as archaic as the thought of carrying around a rucksack of tally sticks today.

Still, despite the incredible penetration of credit and debit card transactions into economic aggregate, and the boom in internet shopping, few will comfortably admit that a cashless society is nearly upon us. In part, it’s a natural denial by many fueled by the idea of our society is indeed on a collision course with the sort of dystopic impersonal future like that depicted in the 1970?s sci-fi film classic, ‘Logan’s Run’.

Research Credit: HB

6 Responses to “‘The Cashless Society is Almost Here’”

  1. I would say it’s plausible that I’ll be walking on three legs and still yelling about “mark of the beast”.

    But, I also think there is the very real possibility things can transform at a very rapid pace, especially on the heels of chaotic events (i.e. various form of collapse, black swans, etc).

    Perhaps drugs are not as important to the elites as total control. Perhaps they have a new system in administrating drugs. Look at Huxley’s vision, 50% of America is on LEGAL drugs.

    What if drugs became legal!

  2. Kevin says:

    But, I also think there is the very real possibility things can transform at a very rapid pace, especially on the heels of chaotic events (i.e. various form of collapse, black swans, etc).

    The cashless system is already in place. It’s just not running in cashless mode yet. Like you say: Chaotic events, black swans, etc…. They could flip the switch and do away with cash very quickly.

    They could, but I’m guessing that they won’t. As long as a shithole like Afghanistan is worth controlling, cash won’t be eliminated.

    And people I consider to be real Christians think of mainstream Christians as being in league with Satan.

  3. Kevin says:

    What if drugs became legal!

    No way. This is why the U.N. is involved with keeping drugs illegal. It’s a global racket to keep prices high.

    This stuff that went down in Washington and Colorado… haha. I don’t know how that happened. That will be interesting to watch.

  4. I agree with you on your remark about mainstream Christians. I believe they are not saved (though they may think so) and live sinful lives.

    I came out of false Christianity which most Christians you know today subscribe to, otherwise called the “modern or prosperity gospel” or the emerging (submerging) church:
    http://www.submergingchurch.com

    The difference between true and false conversion:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDd_IQLbTec

    In fact, I hand out books by authors like Ray Comfort, Paul Washer and such to people who read Rick Warren and most of them suffer cognitive dissonance, they don’t like to be told the truth and rather continue their love of money, materialism and self.

  5. Eileen says:

    I don’t don’t want a cashless society – I’m not sure if anyone else thinks this a good thing, but I don’t. Talk to the poor people re Hurricane Sandy when their food stamp cards didn’t work. Sure, a cashless society would aid and abet the morons who track our every financial move and try to tie it to our Social Security #. You know what, I’ve had it with this cashless society already. I don’t care if its not being implemented because of drugs or not. PHHHT.

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