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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

More importantly, we should stop giving Mastercard our data. Paying for everything with credit cards has been an obviously bad idea since thirty years ago at latest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Our only real private option is cash, and people are more and more pushing it as "outdated".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Regardless of it being a bad idea, it’s convenience completely overwhelmed any privacy considerations. As far as I can tell, we’re marching towards a cashless future with the last dam being politicians need for untraceable cash themselves. But those old politicians are being replaced by family dynasties who have replaced cash payments with favors for their son’s wife’s firm.

Feudalism with extra steps, as ordained by our Heavenly Father Mr. monopoly man