I’m not sure that has to do with privacy and more like “help us avoid paying income taxes.” No one denies that cash is completely anonymous, but that’s not the intent here. This is coming from a huge advocate for privacy, but to me this is a stretch.
More like 65%, taxes has become slavery. If you are intelligent you can avoid most of it, the ignorant end up paying most of it.
The small restaurant I work in racked up at 16k in credit card fees in months. We’ve had to start applying the 3% fee to credit card sales.
Or just raise your prices instead of hitting customers with surprise fees. I own a small business. The vast majority of our revenue is from credit cards. We don’t pass those fees into customers, we just raise our prices as needed.
Medium sized business owner here. We pay a lot more for the handling of cash than for cashless.
According to my friendly neighbourhood corner shop owner they pay 3% on card transactions, unless it’s over a certain amount and then they pay a flat rate.
But he’s not sure what that amount is because as a tiny corner shop they basically never hit it.
Perhaps you’d pay a flat rate if you were paying for a PS5 or something in that price range, I’m not sure.
This is because the system hates cash and has erected all types barriers and inefficiencies when handling cash.
You should look into Monero, it is like cash but digital. No more worrying about your payment processor cutting you off because of you political views.
Credit cards transaction may only cost a few percent, but the cost to business can be significantly higher. For example visa forces you to no require a minimum for credit cards, and they charge a base fee regardless. Also if a customer issues a dispute, the business may have to pay the dispute fee, regardless of the outcome of the dispute. Louis Rosmann as quite a few good videos on this topic, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6an5ZP4Vnzg
They are trying to make people aware that technocratic communists are trying to ban cash, obviously.
You are, that is why I am making you aware that technocratic communists want to control your life.
Bigot commies don’t care, they will shame everyone until you pay a cut to the bankers via “government taxes”
If it means less money goes to fund the criminal activities of the state I am all for it.
lol that’s a tax evader, they save 20% and you save 10%, it’s the good old Italian tradition of “you don’t really need a receipt do you”
Someone doesn’t want to pay fees or taxes. Privacy is just a convenient excuse
Fees are no problem, they come along with valuable services. Taxes is theft and is extracted by the use of violence then the funds are stolen, wasted, and used to commit murder.
How would a guverment work without taxes? And if your argument is that a society works without a guverment, how would that work in regards to hospitals, firefighters, cops, social programs for the poor or homeless, etc?
The government should be extremely limited and funded by fees charged for useful services it provides, if needed a small sales tax could be instituted locally.
Rights need to be restored back to the individual so people can take care of themselves as needed in terms of defense and health care instead of sending 80% of their income to be wasted relying on some horrible and inefficient system. Once we wrangle the state back down to size people will have more than enough wealth to give to charities to help the poor.
Forcing people to pay up at gunpoint is not very civilized. Sounds like theft to me.
It’s absolutely crawling with authoritarians.
I don’t care to spend much time determining if people are lefties or righties. Or care whatever other label they may use, because you’ll quickly find out that whichever affiliation they claim, they want to control what others do in different aspects of their lives and are not in support of individual liberty, self determination or personal responsibility.
Yes, lemmy specifically, it is loaded with hardcore communists who want to take away private property and give it all to the bankers using state violence.
You would not believe how many cash payments in the end customer food and service industry never make it to the books.
What’s next? “Save the Planet! Save Paper! Get 5% off if you don’t need an invoice!”
