Economic Evils Part 8

This is Part 8.

Here is a post from a friend of mine:

Yesterday I experienced NEW AI SOFTWARE FOR SELF-CHECKOUT THAT SHUTS YOUR ABILITY TO PURCHASE DOWN: I found this out because I changed my mind on an item I picked up and I didn’t scan it and set it on a shelf nearby to get it out of the items to be rung up (since there is no one to hand it to in self check out). AI watches your hand movements. If you move your hands in any way other than to scan one item in the correct scan motion resulting in bagging it, the transaction is frozen and it calls the ‘babysitter’ (shop attendant) over. That person then watches a replay of your every movement which automatically starts playing on a mini tv screen at the self-checkout stand. And a number of items it saw you bring up to the till pops up and asks the attendant to count what is in your bag and any items you have not rung up yet. Its only after this that the attendant can punch in a code and re-start your ability to self-check out. In all my life if I change my mind on something at the till I simply handed it to the person ringing me up and said I don’t want this. Now I’m treated like a feckin criminal for changing my mind thanks to AI. And there is no way to put a piece of tape over the camera because the new systems have the camera high over your head. Its wrong.

Unfortunately no food shops are offering a check out person anymore around me. Maybe 1 check out person in rush times for seniors who can’t manage.


And some replies to this post:

You know how we protest this…other then not using them at all? Ill tell you how.
Go in with 10 people and everyone of you intentionally trigger the system at the same time. Just as they start to clear the tills trigger it again.
Act apologetic and continually say sorry to the workers.


in France they are getting groups of up to 50 to fill carts and all of check-out. When they say no cash they all leave the carts there and leave the store


Many times for us shopping at WalMart..they have a price on the item marked on the shelf,that is quite different at the till ring up..which is why we “change our mind” on the purchase. This is often enough as are the lines long enough to want to use “self check out” and this problem occurs at both.


that’s one aspect of the whole AI / digital convergence thing…..guilty by default.


All y’all thinking avoiding ‘self checkouts’ is somehow gonna derail/delay their agenda are completely wrong and making fools out of yourselves.
If you want to intelligently and effectively disrupt or even force them to rethink their tyrannical methods you need to change your lifestyle & habits and where & how you spend your money.
They’re basing their control methods on your behaviour & habits not theirs.
You have one ‘power’ they don’t have and they fear you using it.., the power of absolute basic consumerism.
Cancel every ‘nice to have’ subscription in your life, cancel your amazon & alike account, cancel your streaming accounts, stop buying or subscribing to their shit.
You’ll be saving and they’ll be going bankrupt.
Learn how to live on a need to have not nice to have basis.
Think..!!


Unfortunately, this is the truth of our lives now! I had the exact thing happen to me at self checkout and I had to stand there while the employee watched the replay. It was embarrassing and infuriating at the same time.


Ha ha. Firstly. Thank you for sharing & I will share. But was furious last time in Morrisons. Not one manned till. Granted.bits was 10pm. They close at 11. I lost the plot. Ran my stuff reluctantly thru till only to get “” This is card only 😡 . Called kid assistant over. Asked if I have a Card – YES. I have 2. BUT. IM PAYING CASH – She started smiling. Nope. I WONT change my mind. So she took my things to a til opposite & scanned them. Couldn’t keep my mouth shut 🤭 told her. im protecting your Jobs. Silly child said ” Doesnt matter to me. I’m a student. It’s just my pocket money 😡Even worse. After hoping her parents work there & won’t have a job soon. I wished her Grounded with No money. Fumed ll the way home. Then laughed at MYSELF. Kid is Dumb. Not gonna wake up this lifetime


I had a similar thing happen. I scanned two bottles of soda water and for some reason the second bottle didn’t register even though it beeped through. Talk about an open air prison. 👿👿


Yeah I had some packages from the post office in my trolley and it alerted the system saying that I had not scanned everything and a video of me played too


You know, I bet this is one of the reasons that the Left is pushing all these things that make cities so crime ridden, so that the Right can then come in and offer all these surveillance things as the “solution”.


Woolworths have had this for a long time. And it’s glitchy as all hell. Often treated like a criminal.


The Aldi by me is about all self-checkout (save maybe one lane) and cashless too. And I’m in a town of about 10,000 too, not a big city.



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Here is a post from a friend of mine:

Data shows that in November of 2023, the percentage of U.S. employees who are working remotely or have a hybrid working arrangement is sitting at just under 42% and has been sitting at roughly that level since 2021.
Many bustling hubs are now starting to look like ghost towns as office occupancy in the 10 largest U.S. metro areas has been hovering at around 50% this year, according to Kastle data.
“We are three and a half years in, and we’re totally stuck. It would take something as extreme as the pandemic to unstick it,” Bloom recently told CNBC.
Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/30/return-to-office-is-dead-stanford-economist-says-heres-why.html

Office vacancies on a national level hit a 30-year high of 18.2% in the second quarter of 2023, according to CBRE data — with empty offices or “ghost towers” cropping up from coast-to-coast.


And another post from her:

We now spend more on interest to pay the national debt than anything else in the budget except Social Security and Medicare. Entering 2024 we are now at $34 trillion in debt and over $1 trillion per year in interest on the debt. The debt is growing at well above $2 trillion per year, piling on even more interest payment obligations. If we have a recession, the deficits will be even larger and make these numbers even more ridiculous.

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Here is a post from a friend of mine from Canada:

While Steve Kirsch pushes his anti-vax shtick, he’s working with Central banks behind the scenes to bring in CBDC.

Listen to it come out of his own mouth in the videos in the links below.

1.https://youtu.be/wd3fJE4cUjs?si=u5GNxKs6G6-hAw2R

2.https://europe.money2020.com/crypto/digitalcurrency

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Here is a post from a friend of mine:

Driverless truck companies plan to ditch human co-pilots in Texas in 2024

https://autos.yahoo.com/driverless-truck-companies-plan-ditch-150000638.html


Here is a post from my friend from Tulsa:

More people seem to be realizing the danger of CBDCs – that they will become a way for the government* to dictate what you can or cannot do and a means to control all aspects of your life. But let me suggest that this realization has been allowed to occur in order to catalyze public demand for private digital currencies, which are likely even worse in terms of using your data against you and implementing the new international economic order (NIEO). The NIEO is a globalized, privatized, data-driven system for measuring, managing, and monetizing your behavior – a social engineering program of epic proportion. Private-sector-issued stablecoins have all the programmability of CBDC – but without any accountability to the public. They are in the custody and under the management of the banking cartel and will have the same ESG-strings (or the right-leaning counterpart) attached to them as those which are ubiquitously promoted throughout the corporate sector. The Reset intends to eviscerate nation-states of any and all authority to affect the global economy, to do away with representative government that (on paper and in theory) must respond to the will of the people, and to place unelected, unaccountable stakeholders at the helm of a global, programmable metaversal Skinner box.
The narrative patterns in the press releases, whitepapers, and marketing materials are clear: governments lack the speed, expertise, and agility to navigate digital transformation and Globalization 4.0 – therefore, the private sector must step up to the plate just as it did during the public health emergency of 2020. Enter the public-private partnership to accelerate the change to a more sustainable and inclusive world.
The same banking cartel that feigns to support CBDC (and controls the criminal lackeys who hold positions in government) is behind private digital currencies. Neither is an acceptable option. But because the latter does not seem to evoke the same level of suspicion as as the former, I consider it the more ominous of the two.
Check out this post from Circle USDC stablecoin for an example of the narrative spin that is used to steer the public toward the NIEO.
*Of course, the Federal Reserve is not a public entity, but for the purpose of this post, I link it to government. It is (on paper) subject to some public oversight, which is not the case for Blackrock, which manages the Circle USDC.

https://www.circle.com/blog/circle-submits-response-to-federal-reserves-cbdc-discussion-paper


Here is a post from a friend of mine:

Comment:

“I just got my order from Walmart and they had to substitute 18 items. The man that picked and delivered them said they just didn’t have the groceries I ordered. He mentioned no chicken broth since Thanksgiving. He had never seen anything like this is America before”.

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And another post from her:

Comment:

“At my neighborhood Walmart in Olathe, KS there was no flour, no sugar, and hardly any canned meat, canned chili. There was one gallon whole milk left, I took that one. All other milk was very sparse, except for the very expensive milk.”

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And yet another post from her:

Comment:
“Many shortages in New Smyrna Beach, Florida,- Walmart. dairy is short, as dog food, pasta, potatoes, fresh vegetables. My livestock feed bill doubled this month from $490/month to $ $980/month. as did my house insurance (increased from $465/month to $755/month). -There isn’t enough money to go around.”


And yet another post from her:

Comment:
“I live in Germany -The train drivers in Germany have decided to join the strike no rail travel or movement of goods for a week”


And yet another post from her:

Comment:
” Central Texas -Walmart stores are beginning to have gaps of chicken broth and fresh vegetables and fruits in their stores “


And yet another post from her:

NEED TO READ THIS ..
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“My son is an inventory manager at a Walmart store in Texas – Walmart corporation is pulling inventory from Sam’s Club to stock the shelves at Walmart stores. Different brands from where ever Walmart can get it are being used to cover gaps of shortages. GV and Equate brand makers are beginning to walk away from contracts [ breaking contracts] with Walmart Corporation because there is not a profit margin any more. Employees are being limited on some purchases now as cans of tuna , sugar, and pasta. There are shortages. The general manager of my son’s store told him not to discuss shortages because it is bad for moral. “


And yet another post from her:

Comment:
“Central Alabama. I went to my local Walmart today with my grocery list of 92 items . I had to make a lot of substitutions or go without. Milk was almost gone, lots of people have discussed the lacking of milk at other grocery stores across this country.
You could see stockers standing in the cooler areas because there wasn’t anything to do . Bread and tortillas were non-existence. Fresh veggies can’t roll my eyes hard enough concerning how bad they were . The displays of food items on shelves are continuing to shrink in size. Are we now living in a communist country?”


And yet another post from her:

Comment:
“No butter at Costco in Montgomery, Alabama none in the dairy refrigerator section. Costco put yogurt in its place.”


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Here is a post from a friend of mine:

Food items which are to sky rocket in price / if you can find them in grocery store……………

BEEF

CHICKEN

FISH and SEAFOOD

FLOUR and CEREALS

RICE

MILK and DAIRY PRODUCTS

EGGS

VEGETABLES / PRODUCE

CONDIMENTS and SPICES

NUTS

COOKING OILS

COFFEE

SUGAR

CHOCOLATE

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Here is a post from a friend of mine:

Utility Bill Debt For Americans Hits Record As Heating Homes Now Seen As Luxury

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/utility-bill-debt-americans-hits-record-heating-homes-now-seen-luxury


And another post from her:

Comment from an employee, who works for Wally World Distribution Center in the mid west
“We are running out of trailers to unload . We only had 20 trailers to do today and now the corporate office is asking for volunteer time off from lack of supplies coming in. We do not have enough supplies coming into the distribution center. We have not had Coleman 1 pound propane tanks for 4 weeks to come into the distribution center . We were also told its not going to get better for months if not longer. I recommend buying bug spray, fishing gear, anything you might need or use this summer because we were told prices are going up. Rough road ahead. “


And yet another post from her:

Comment from employee , who works at an electrical parts company in Wisconsin

” I work at an electrical parts manufacturing company.. For the past three months we have had shortages on the machinery parts inside the factory. This past month the shortages have become sever, the company is sending employees home early because the factory shuts down due to lack of parts. This is a serious problem for our country.”

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Here is a post from a friend of mine:
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A dear friend from the UK brought ONE SMALL TOWN (OST) to my attention a few weeks ago and asked me to weigh in on it. It is an initiative being pushed as an alternative to the globalist agenda by building local solutions via #CONTRIBUTIONISM and #TOKENS. A way to thrive locally by starting businesses in small towns and communities via business models that do not rely on value creation, but rather, contribution of one’s time/labour. Whether the initiators and founders of this effort know it or not, it is a #TrojanHorse for #COMMUNITARIANISM and also, the #DigitalID.
➡️➡️➡️ https://www.onesmalltown.org
My commentary and initial analysis:

  • OST is incorporated in South Africa and is being pushed as a global movement
    MONTHLY BENEFITS
  • Monthly basket of goods (UBI = Universal Basic Income)
  • Monthly cash dividends – EQUAL share of 60% net profits from ALL businesses (equalization of the proletariat)
  • ONE INFINITY TOKEN for every three hours of LABOUR
  • OST Model requires individuals of the “community” to sign up and donate THREE HOURS of their time PER WEEK (No qualitative or quantitative measures of the output)
  • LABOUR in itself does not equal VALUE CREATION
  • FREE labour = Slavery (Cost basis for the business is computed as ZERO)
  • 3 hr shift Infinity Token deposited directly to their DIGITAL WALLET (Trojan horse for a Digital ID)
  • Community MUST CREATE a legal CORPORATE ENTITY – all corporations have bylaws and charters and ultimately must align with the communist charter of the parent corporation (Note: UN SDGs)
  • Net Profit Revenue Split:
    — 60% to community co-op
    — 30% to investor (This is ludicrous as there is no discussion of the pre-money valuation of the business and the people; no discussion on how much money will be invested; to give away 30% of the business share to an investor without value judgment or negotiations is essentially enslaving the community) -> STAKEHOLDER CAPITALISM
    — 10% to OST head office for operational costs (Royalties, IP use, land rentals etc.)
    COMMUNITY DRIVEN STRUCTURE (Driven by “US”)
    Economic model that follows UBUNTU fundamentals:
  • Unity in the community (any individual or group of individuals who don’t align with the equalization aspect will be ostracized).
  • Creating and sharing abundance for all (equalization; inversion in “abundance”)
  • (Any form of) CAPITALISM replaced by CONTRIBUTIONISM (Value Creation replaced by hourly labour)
  • OST is a BLOCKCHAIN platform (see my Facebook post on blockchains and how they will be used to enslave society)
  • “A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind” – AI controlled (HIVE MIND) – master with many slaves

COMMUNITARIANISM Narratives:

  • “Competition does not help people” (Michael Tellinger video on YouTube)
  • Participating in joy of what we create COLLECTIVELY
  • All good things should be available to us all the time!!!!
  • Abundance + Prosperity by working 3 hours/week!
  • All Business profits (and losses) will be put into one pool and then distributed EQUALLY amongst all members -> EQUALIZATION OF WEALTH/OUTCOMES regardless of merit, value creation and creativity. Labour hours driven metrics.
    One Small Town ➡️➡️➡️ ONE BIG LIE!

And some replies to this post:

An “alternative” to the Globalist Agenda? It IS the Globalist Agenda. I’m not sure how this is any different than what I’ve heard so far. It sounds like a repackaging of public/private partnership/Digital ID/surveillance economy, and the usual 15 or however many minutes cities that they want to keep us corralled in, (thus, the ‘One Small Town’ branding). This so-called “Infinity Token” will have a quantitative value, I don’t care how they want to spin it. All time and labor creates value if a transaction of wealth occurs (in this case, a credit). I think the Globalist marketing department is working overtime to find new ways to lipstick the 4IR pig.


How would a true local economic and infactstrucure system work? What would the political architecture and mechanisms to inculate and protect it look like?
On what principals would they have to be based?
I submit that they must at their core, be anti-globalist, and anti-oligarchic.
These days, it would also have to be a challenge to the authority of the technocrats (all so called experts)
So for being anti globalist, the accusations would be that you are anti “free trade”.
For stepping on the toes of corporations and billionaires, you’d be a “Communist”.
And to challenge the experts, you’d have to be tagged anti-science.
The general population are dependant, on ever more elaborate and constricting outside systems controled by a “hidden hand”. They are primed to attack any alternatives because they can’t define or properly identify the real enemy.
We need to strip it all down with simple principals clearly defined. Political mechanisms are tools for supporting ideologies. They don’t necessarily belong to any particular one.
A manifesto would be apropos.
We have the right to provide our own food and create our own houses and shops under LOCAL regulation exclusively.
The regulation must be transparent, minimal and subject to input and directed by and for each neighborhood without outside interference.
NGOs, “charities” foreign governments, corporations, ect should be forbidden from participation.
Officials, moderators, judges etc. Should be vetted and examined for drugs, criminal history, former employment, membership in secret societies and familial connections (don’t put a Podesta in charge of the henhouse).
Vetted hopefuls could be chosen by lot.
These are just some examples of what could be promoted that would appeal to everyone that just wants to be left alone to enjoy the fruit of their own labor and the pursuit of happiness.
Takeaway is this.
All economic and political mechanisms must be LOCAL, TRANSPARANT, ANTI-OLIGARCHIC, and ANTI-TECHNOCRATIC. (against outside experts.)


Thank you for looking into this! Awhile back, I was actually invited to help startup a local community currency that sounded a lot like this. At the time I was clueless. It never came into fruition, thankfully, but this type of thing IS coming and going to deceive a lot of freedom loving people. I wrote this in a post awhile back…
Here, we see in the WEF whitepaper on CBDC, that they are considering both centralized AND decentralized styles of architecture (top down or bottom up) for CBDC. This means we shouldn’t just assume that the final global financial system that the WEF promotes, will be one with “top down” controls, as I hear many who are opposed to CBDC claiming the WEF is trying to implement.
EITHER centralized or decentralized format can be utilized and desirable to meet the Agenda 2030 goals, and possibly both types will have a place in the future global economy.
So for everyone excited about Bitcoin and other decentralized crypocurrencies, web3, NFT’s, local tokenized currencies, tokenization based on human capital or nature capital, to use in a “parallel society”, thinking it will give you freedom, please realize that the WEF you despise is considering the same decentralized options for use to meet their 2030 goals. They just care that you go digital.
Who started the whole assumption that WEF is all about “top down” control anyway???
If you read their own whitepaper closely, you will see that you cannot make this assumption.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again…
DIGITAL IS DIGITAL, no matter how you play the game!!!
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Decentralized DeFi


Thanks. Digitalization is about CONDITIONAL ACCESS. It is implemented by the five pillars of the Digital Transformation. The prison guard is ZERO TRUST (Default Deny).


I live near an environmental green based community, years ago chatting to friends that lived there they told me how the community was run, I was a little shocked at the self imposed lifestyle restrictions they had put on themselves to help SAVE THE PLANET, they were basically CARBON FOOTPRINT TRACKING each other, you could only travel abroad when you had enough carbon vouchers and you had to input 18hr of labour per week for the community including a mealtime rota where you had to cook for the whole community. It ain’t easy being green!


I will need to reread this after a cup of coffee, but in first glance reminds me of what William Bradford and his group already tried in On Plymouth Plantation, and failed. Betting many aren’t taught about that part of the mayflower story. This new plan is just updated with shackles to keep us from getting out once we take the plunge. Thanks to tech. But I’ll re read and try to wrap my head around it.


decentralized currency is fine (as long as it’s not digital), and actually state banks could be a way around digital cashless society by issuing state issued paper scrip, and have exchange agreements with other states. I think it has been discussed in Tennessee (state senator Frank Nicely is an advocate of it). Actually if people want to put together a community or do a business as a marxist co-op its fine as long as it’s voluntary. The problem comes when globalists push initiatives on us through municipal governments through the back door as was brought to light by the work of the late Rosa Koire.


fyi, 2012.



Here is a post from another friend of mine:

Comment:

.” I’m in a small town in CO near Wolf Creek pass. I’ve assisted with food pantry here for over 5 years. The last 6 months I’ve seen a HUGE increase in people going to the food pantries. New cars. Old cars all kinds of folks now. I personally did not take for myself till the last few months. It’s a humbling experience to stand in line to be able to make it with the rising cost of everything. I can tell you as a person with inside knowledge and personal need there has been a huge shift in people needing food pantries”

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And another post from her:

First year Interest costs on a new typical mortgage have SURGED to over 41% of median wages under Biden. Up from just 16.6%

Reckless federal deficits with a debt that’s $260,000 per household now and set to go to $380,000 in just 10 years The more the uniparty spends our money, the more it drives inflation and interest costs through the roof!

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And yet another post from her:

We are now officially in the process of collapsing – National debt is 34.2 trillion thanks to the political uniparty in D,C,, I have stated since 2009 the political pendulum swings both ways

Debt to GDP IS 1002.27% . We have 43.4 million Americans now living in poverty We have 127 million people not in the labor force . U.S. unfunded liability is $212 .7 trillion What is owed into .Social Security $26.6 trillion. Medicare liability $49.7 trillion. We have a trade deficit over $1 trillion. We are importing over $250.4 billion in oil . Student loan debt per student $.30.8 thousand. Credit card debt $1,378 trillion.

Tell me if you think we are not collapsing …

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And yet another post from her:

I stated yesterday food prices will continue to go up and I meant every word I have stated including 2024 and 2025 is going to be h*ll for Americans .. We will see millions of families struggle and do without

Inflation: Consumer prices rise 3.1% in January, defying forecasts for a faster slowdown

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inflation-consumer-prices-rise-31-in-january-defying-forecasts-for-a-faster-slowdown-133334607.html

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And yet another post from her:

A German bank says it’s preparing for the worst property crisis since ’08 as commercial real estate distress spreads

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/german-bank-says-preparing-worst-034002701.html


And yet another post from her:

it’s transitory, they said

“Car insurance premiums rose 20.6% in January from a year earlier”

The Cost of Car Ownership Is Getting Painful

https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/inflation-car-prices-ownership-insurance-7cac91f1

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And yet another post from her:

It seems 2024 will be the year of food recalls, besides the [cough/cough Avian bird flu

Updated List of Products Linked to the Rizo-López Foods, Inc. Recall

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/listeria-outbreak-an-updated-list-of-products-linked-to-the-rizo-lópez-foods-inc-recall/ar-BB1i4FMR

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And yet another post from her:

Speaking from my heart – Everyone needs to cut as much that is not necessary as we can out of our lives . Powell stepped forward with insiders and stated regardless of what is happening with inflation we are going to cut rates at least twice this year.. If they do cut rates every one of us is going see such an inflated stock market it will become utter cha-os [ think of 1929 ] and eventually what will happen inflation will go through the roof . Powell is talking about a June and September rate cut . If this is true and if he’s going to do this it will be built into the stock market we will see the market run up on this news and with that news it will be overinflated. .
The lay off spree which is happening now is a kitten to what will happen – A person , who works in the manufacturing business stated “their company is having such a difficult time because the entire industry is down basically 25% of sales right now- off 25% and the manufacturing sector and businesses are not finished with layoffs…-


And yet another post from her:

Comment:

‘ I own a small machine shop in Columbia South Carolina, 2 days ago my credit card machine had an update notification, A customer now can chose ‘credit, debit, or cash. I called the credit card company and was told the update is for the ‘new’ system which will go into effect in a few months We will be required to type in the amount of cash payment. This will be a requirement and there will be a 4% charge to use cash I have come to the conclusion this new system which is being implemented its purpose is to help ban cash” .

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And yet another post from her:

Comment:

“I work at UPS in Minneapolis we have been getting old coins especially pennies as well as older dollars. I have not seen any new one dollar bills for quite awhile now. “

Comment:

” I live in mid-west coast of Florida . My roommate works at Dollar General. She has been noticing an increase of customers paying with change jars. Customers are only purchasing necessities and often they remove items because they don’t have enough money.”.

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Digital Currency Dialectic

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Here is a post from a friend of mine:

Americans spend more on food than they did 30 years ago. Government statistics keep telling us everything is fine, but the facts on the ground say we’re going backwards. Not just on food: shrinking homes, falling home ownership, and even falling life expectancy paint a picture of a generation of Americans who, for the first time since the 1930’s, are poorer than their parents.
Food costs hit 30 year high.
Between ongoing inflation and shriveling real incomes, we’ve lost a generation of prosperity.
For centuries each generation of Americans was richer than their parents — often twice as rich. This has now broken, whatever happy-talk government statisticians feed us.
From food costs to life expectancies to home size and home ownership, we are going backwards for at the fastest pace since the 1930′


And another post from her:

Japan is no longer the world’s 3rd largest economy. Japan has officially entered into a recession . Of course, recession doesn’t count here in Amerika. Amerika’s government and the news media has changed the definition of recession to avoid bad headlines. They’ll do everything they can to hide it, including kicking the can down the road until we run out of road.

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And yet another post from her:

Federal spending hits the loot-the-treasury stage, with debt soaring $100 billion in just 4 days. It only took them 100 days for a cool trillion — an annual rate of nearly $3.7 trillion. Now even mainstreamers are warning of a “meltdown” as early as 2025 as federal debt swamps financial markets. One prominent economist thinks it could look like the 2022 UK crisis, which threatened to topple banks and even pension funds, crashed the pound, and toppled the government.

———-Federal debt is up $100 billion in just 4 days. We’re on track for $37 trillion by the end of this year. And $40 trillion by the end of next. Now a prominent Wharton professor is warning of a “meltdown” as early as 2025 as debt swamps financial markets.

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Here is a post from a pro-cash group:

Went into a Barclays Branch in Livingston shopping centre (Scotland) to pay cash into my Credit card. Was advised that the Branch would be closing soon and that the new branch would be Cashless!
Went into Bank of Scotland in same centre. Was advised that their flagship store in the St James quarter was Cashless!
The Banks are forcing us into a cashless situation!


And some replies to this post:

had same needed to pay £5 ground rent every 3 years. They won’t take cash had to use card all to do with money laundering they told me. Total joke


so I think the reason for all this is the fact they havnt got our money. They run their banking on a Ponsi system, so if we all withdrew our money they would collapse & need prosecuting for fraud!


I thought the Gov bought in a law last year that no one must be more a a certain distance from a cash point ?
August 2023
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Government acts to protect access to cash throughout the UK
As hundreds of free cash machines and bank branches vanish from UK high streets, the government has today announced a new committee to ensure Britons remain able to access cash. The government’s latest move is welcome news, following Which? findings that around 3,000 cash machines vanished in the last year


Getting ready for their great Reset when millions want to get their hard earned cash out of the criminal gambling banking system. It will be made worse when they find out the entire banking shite show is bankrupt and worse these same criminals in suits have full access to your savings and balances to bail themselves for their part in this world wide Globalist Coup of all democracies of the world. Will this corrupt Government even have the promised money to pay out their bank guarantee arrangement should Banks default?


That is, of course, a cunning ruse by HM Gov… an act of pretending to have your back when they simply don’t on all fronts. So you’re a shopkeeper (Veg shop, Fis&Chip shop, Pub, you name it) and you today accept cash. Where though tomorrow do you deposit those takings at the end of the day/week/month if banks don’t accept that cash? It’s a cashless society by subterfuge, because they could never get backing for it honestly. But sure… YOU can get cash out (say they, with feigned concern)… but to then spend ….WHERE??? Eventually! Well nowhere… eventually.


I tried to pay money into someone’s account to pay for New Year’s Eve party tickets and was told by Nat West it was considered to be money laundering. Absolutely ludicrous.


I had the same at Barclays but I used to put cash into my metro account so 😕


And yet the true money launderers are constantly working their way around the system


It’s much worse in the Uk than anywhere else looks like we’re the gineau pigs yet again. Had family in Poland this weekend and it’s nearly all cash. Shops and businesses prefer it there but we seem to just accept everything 😢


That’s because the unelected Sunak is a WEF puppet and he is pushing this 🤬


Yes!! Someone close to me works for this bank and has confirmed all branches are closing and everything is going digital! There we have it from the horses mouth. I dont know what we can do about it now in all honesty. Its happening whether we like it or not!


It won’t matter how much more we use cash from now on, once the time is right to implement full cbdc, it will go ahead and your cash will be worth nothing. Writing to your mps? forget it


The ANZ bank in Australia is becoming cashless over the counter. My local branch is that way, with all transactions required to take place via the ATM. Which is fine except when one has an account for an amount like $424.50 to pay and coins can’t be put into nor given as change from the ATM



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Here is a post from a friend of mine:

Comment:

” I am a cashier at Winco grocery store. 75% of the customers I am checking out now is using food stamps to purchase groceries. This 8 out of 10 customers are having to use government subsidy to pay for their food. This is not normal.”

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And another post from her:

Comment:

” Southeast Alabama. Just spoke with local butcher. He stated that it’s getting harder and harder to get local beef, The price has been slowly rising. “

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And yet another post from her:

A third of American adults in Northwestern Mutual’s 2024 Planning & Progress survey said they don’t feel financially secure. That’s up from 27% in 2023 and the highest measure going back to 2012.

https://archive.ph/MPYol#selection-1677.0-1681.112

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And yet another post from her:

Comment:
” I live in southern Virginia . I went to purchase groceries, two employees told me prices were to increase on food items. One of the employees stated a tremendous price increase was coming. and they were concerned how customers were going to be able to purchase food. . “


And yet another post from her:

Comment:
” I leave in Australia . Bank West is informing customers they will be closing all branches and going digital”


And yet another post from her:

Comment:
” I live in New York state , I was informed by a State Farm rep. car insurance premiums was going up 25% the next renewal. I was also told by the rep. other insurance companies was implementing similar increases. “


And yet another post from her:

As Argentina food prices soar, more people scavenge to survive
Sandra Boluch, a fruit and vegetable seller in Buenos Aires, is seeing a worrying trend as inflation soars over 250%: sliding sales and more people scavenging for what she throws away, hoping to find enough for a meal.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/argentina-food-prices-soar-more-110000246.html


And yet another post from her:

Japan enters stagflation for the first time in 40 years as unions force double-digit wage hikes on giant companies representing millions of workers. This could send the Bank of Japan into panic-hikes. Given Japan’s recession, that could set off a financial crisis with Japan’s national debt almost 3 times GDP. In US terms, that would be like a national debt of $60 trillion. The dominos are falling for a worldwide stagflationary crisis. We could get 2008 and 1970’s all rolled into one — something that hasn’t happened worldwide since the 1930’s.


And yet another post from her:

Which major country will first to financial collapse?
Germany Is Running Out Of Money And Debt Levels Are Exploding, Finance Minister Warns

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/germany-running-out-money-and-debt-levels-are-exploding-finance-minister-warns


And yet another post from her:

Two-thirds of your income taxes now go to debt service.

Meanwhile, the federal government is spending twice what it takes in taxes, and the deficit is the second-highest on record after only the Co-vid lockdowns. Washington is eating the people alive for wars and importing millions of voters in training. How will it end? How it always ends: inflation, mass default, and sovereign debt crisis. The only question is when.

The federal government now spends twice what it takes in tax revenue. While debt service alone eats nearly 2/3 of individual income tax.
So when you write that check to the IRS next month, rest easy knowing most of it is going to Wall Street and China.
The federal spending borg is eating everything in sight, crapping out wars and welfare for migrants. And leaving the people they serve to fight over the crumbs.


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