Maybe December? So we all take money out of banks, at least current month salary, and spend cash only. I think that is something that shouldn’t be hard to do and it would show if we, the people, have any power left to make positive changes for the future or we can just surrender and eat bugs.
Edit:
If I’m trading my only true value, my time, then I want to have 100% control over it, not to depend if some bank would freeze my account and I lost 1/3 of my life irreversible.
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English21•11 months ago
I suspect you have some unhinged notions about banks and/or the government and/or cashless transactions, but because you didn’t say why we should do this thing you suggest, I don’t know what specific unhinged notions you have.
- Davel23 ( @Davel23@kbin.social ) 9•11 months ago
I think you’d be better off pushing for a mental health awareness month…
- MrFunnyMoustache ( @MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml ) 7•11 months ago
Why though? What’s the benefit?
To show that you care for your life time you gave away.
- MrFunnyMoustache ( @MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml ) 5•11 months ago
I don’t quite understand what you mean by that…
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English5•11 months ago
- eezeebee ( @eezeebee@lemmy.ca ) English5•11 months ago
Why?
The majority of my expenses come out with direct deposit and can’t be paid with cash even if I wanted to.
- TH1NKTHRICE ( @TH1NKTHRICE@lemmy.ca ) 5•11 months ago
- Kit ( @Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•11 months ago
Maybe I’m old-school, but every paycheck I take out a few hundred to act as my spending money. I mostly frequent small businesses and I know they prefer cash to avoid fees (and possibly taxes but that’s none of my business). It also helps with budgeting.
- theshatterstone54 ( @theshatterstone54@feddit.uk ) 4•11 months ago
Now you see, if you just said something like “I’m tired of banks creating money out of thin air and getting bailouts when they gamble and lose, so how about we show them they should value us more instead of ruining our economy like with the 2008 crash, because if we all pull our money out they have no money left, like if all people in the world stopped paying taxes for a year, or stopped believing in money, the governments would be incapable of detaining you or that people should not be afraid of governments, corporations and their employers, instead the above should be scared of the people” I would’ve been all in, but with the direction you took it, I think I’ll pass. Oh wait.
- M. Orange ( @miracleorange@beehaw.org ) 4•11 months ago
Or you could just put your money in a credit union…
- magnetosphere ( @magnetosphere@kbin.social ) 4•11 months ago
Many cashiers would hate this idea. It would slow things down considerably. We’d run out of change all the time. Already I run into problems with people paying for an $8 purchase with a fucking hundred.
That’s a big NO to #CashAwarenessMonth from me.
- Scrubbles ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) English4•11 months ago
- SandbagTiara2816 ( @SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•11 months ago
Two questions:
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Eating bugs is not an abnormal human behavior, and it is not uncommon in cuisine across the world. So I don’t see how that’s a negative thing, inherently?
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How would using cash translate into a message of “people power”? You’re still paying the same amount of the same currency for the same product, just in a different form.
I don’t know, but I would like to try, we don’t know what we can loose or gain, we only cry when we have issues and we don’t have solution or power to make difference, and it is just awareness month, no biggie
- SandbagTiara2816 ( @SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•11 months ago
I mean, you’re more than welcome to try! I’m just curious why this issue in particular strikes you as a high priority
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- Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•11 months ago
Just notice how much you got and not spend anything besides the absolute necessary like cooking groceries (no sweets, etc.) and non-essential services like Netflix, going out, eating out.
No need to take money from the bank and risk a 3000€ pay check running around. - TigrisMorte ( @TigrisMorte@kbin.social ) 3•11 months ago
I found the mugger that thinks cashless is damaging their business! ^