UUUGH!!!!

[DWalt]

Digital money is already in the works for replacing our currenty. Probably before Biden gets out of office. Then we are under complete control of the govt.

In effect, we are already there. Credit cards are just a form of cyber currency. If the government wanted to track all of your CC transactions, they could easily do it. And maybe they are already doing it.

 

[Duckford]

In effect, we are already there. Credit cards are just a form of cyber currency. If the government wanted to track all of your CC transactions, they could easily do it. And maybe they are already doing it.

That's why all this talk of "digital currency" is a big joke. Its already just numbers on paper, we have long already been at that point.

If anything, the trouble is gong to be the usual currency value changes that have gone on throughout all of history. i.e. Roosevelt effectively debasing the dollar from gold by revaluing it, or the Roman tactic of switching base from silver to gold, or gold to silver, ect.

The only thing I can see possibly happening is an attempt by the State to revalue the currency through a "reset" that really isn't a reset, just an excuse to revalue the currency, with some lame excuse of "digital currency" being added as a thin vaneer.

Cash will never die, no matter how many of the oligarchs dream of it, it will never come. Digital currency "coming" is a joke because it has been here for a very, very long time already. Things wont' change the way people think.

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."


Bekeart

Bekeart, you should be ashamed of that post...no matter how true it is! ROFLMAO! Of course, you aren't!

(Actually, it isn't HAL....these days it's SIRI. I'm waiting for some smart aleck on YT to make a video of HAL and SIRI arguing like a married couple.)

 

[steelslaver]

I tried to make a VA appointment online--unsuccessfully. Tried to call and gave up when my 4-miniute wait time exceeded 45 minutes. Listening to the 45-minute VA PTSD sales pitch almost drove me insane. Received an email "survey" from the VA, so I told them their nonstop PTSD ad made me want to call the suicide hotline. Fifteen minutes after "Send" I received a call from the National Suicide Hotline asking me if I was okay. I laughed and told them I was until I listened to them for 45 minutes telling me to seek help. Now I get a monthly "How are you" card from the VA. At the VA appointment, the poor PA asked if I felt depressed. I told her I was never answering those questions again for anyone--period--and she could put that in my file. Rant over.

That stuff is depressing. It seems they will not be happy until I am depressed. Joking about it is like joking about a gun at the airport.

 

[Travis Montana]

Cash is still king in my mind. I do remember the first years of credit cards and you could almost go in any store and get a 3 or 4 % discount if you told them it was cash and not card. I do feel we pay that much more for everything now because card fees are just auto built into the price. I also still carry some cash with me. It is still the best way to seal a deal.

 

[Rustyt1953]

(Actually, it isn't HAL....these days it's SIRI. I'm waiting for some smart aleck on YT to make a video of HAL and SIRI arguing like a married couple.)

Close enough?


[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f_1dhKsELzs[/ame]

 

[Pisgah]

It is heartening that the original poster doesn't seem to mind any and all of his personal information being made public on the Internet. This knowledge will soothe my conscience as I open various phony accounts using his data...

 

[Breakaway500]

The more technology that enters my life the more I appreciate gears and levers. Keep it simple, stupid. So much for that expression!

 

[Golddollar]

Cash is still king in my mind. I do remember the first years of credit cards and you could almost go in any store and get a 3 or 4 % discount if you told them it was cash and not card. I do feel we pay that much more for everything now because card fees are just auto built into the price. I also still carry some cash with me. It is still the best way to seal a deal.

At a commercial bar or full service restaurant I'll put the check on a credit card but I always tip in cash, usually Golden Dollars. I used to tend bar, and I have a lot of empathy with serving staff, so I want to make sure they get every penny of my tips. And hopefully they remember I gave them a good tip. In the service clubs I'm usually paying all in cash, Golden Dollars and $2 bills usually.

 

[444 Magnum]

It is heartening that the original poster doesn't seem to mind any and all of his personal information being made public on the Internet. This knowledge will soothe my conscience as I open various phony accounts using his data...

What did I make public? The fact that I use g-mail? Have fun and good luck with that. You don't even know my g-mail address unless you hack this forum. Then you'll have to deal with the silver back because he knows who you are.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

I'm old & old fashioned. Have land line, a flip cell phone & pay cash for most everything. That's the way it was in my youth. That's the way now.