Uncle Scam Wants YOU

[chucanelli]

Wow. I just saw the biggest, most obvious piece of propaganda in quite a while. It advocates the use of check cards instead of cash, because cash "shouldn't slow you down."  The commercial is amazingly choreographed, but the message is so blatantly obvious: A cashless society is ideal and anyone who says differently will just get in the way of your

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[pastorbarry]

Hey, Addy. Interesting perspective. Yet, enlighten me. How does the advertising for a company in the private sector translate to propaganda of government power to financially "rape" people? Just wondering.

[chucanelli]

Well, now that money is being translated into electronic signal, it could possibly lose its worth. Inflation is almost inevitable. The real danger lies not in credit cards, however, but in their successors, the next order of convenience - mark cards (which already exist) with smart chips, and following soon after the chips will be implanted, or required at least (not by law, of course, but everything else will simply not be in use). All of your credit card information is freely accessible to the government. If you buy something with a credit card, they can know about it. Cash is a solid, non-traceable (in and of itself) medium that allows us the privacy we so willingly give up for the sake of convenience. Like I said in the entry, it's not that I'm sure the government WOULD take advantage of that information in the worst way possible, but we shouldn't ever give an entity with so much power that ability

[pastorbarry]

I tend to agree with you.