Off topic & small talk: Cash Your Opinion (Page 2)

Knochen wrote on 03.05.2018 at 22:56: I agree with you partly but you also exaggerate. Because if it were as you describe then it would be even now so. In fact, the average German has about 60-80 € cash. Who still has cash under the pillow that is enough to travel outside the country? We already have a condition in which hardly anyone uses cash. If there were no more cash tomorrow, could the government or the Insurance company see your account activity? No! Why should they? For that, banking secrecy would have to be abolished, not cash.

(And if someone comes at me here about "Do you think you unworldly fool really that they can not see what you pay with your money and blablabla" I have to say no I think not but if that is so then the fact that there is no cash but nothing changes, keyword is Big Data and not whether you buy an anal dildo)

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Knochen wrote on 04.05.2018 at 14:24: Discussing with people like you really makes no sense. You insinuate things here that I never said and twist others into the complete opposite. If you had read what I wrote you would know for example that I personally almost always pay with cash and also almost never buy online. I never said I was okay with being monitored because I have nothing to hide, that's bullshit. I'm not for the abolition of cash at all and that's what I wrote so why should I give you benefits for something I'm not for at all? This being against it in principle is not a smart way to argue. You should also acknowledge when someone is basically your opinion.

I actually think that the majority of the population has largely abandoned cash, but that doesn't mean I do. I also think that the government has no interest at all in monitoring 80 million people and their purchasing behavior, only corporations are interested in this for market research, personalized advertising etc.

My father scans each of his shoppers at home and transmits the data to a market research company. In return he gets points which he can exchange for rewards. Nintendo Wii, camping equipment, fitness equipment, etc. Would these companies give out such rewards if they could have the same data for free? Not everything is monitored just because it is technically possible. Much is evaluated by algorithms and processed by computer systems but no employee of the oh so evil state sits somewhere and looks at how many cups of whipped cream you have bought and thinks cool, whipped cream.

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Matthias wrote on 04/05/2018 at 18:12: Interesting topic.

First of all: I am an absolute opponent of cash abolition!

One hears again and again, that only criminals pay with 500s, or cash should be abolished because it is so often misused...
I do not call myself a gangster, or criminal, but more often I get into the situation where I have to pay some things just quickly cash.
For example, I was just in the situation that I had to pay my rent or the rent Deposit for my apartment in Malta in cash.
Why in cash? Because opening a bank account in Malta takes a bit longer than you might be used to in Germany.
If I imagine I had no cash, I would probably be living on the street now because I canceled all my accounts in Germany.

I also like to pay with cash in the supermarket, like to push a bill into a Slot machine, or can quickly dispose of the money in an emergency.

Cash is simply a piece of freedom and I would not like to have that taken away.
You can pay anonymously, which I like - I don't want every store to store my personal bank data / personal details when I buy something.

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