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WHY YOU SHOULD PAY CASH

WHEN YOU PAY DIGITALLY MOST OF THE MONEY GOES TO THE BANKS NOT YOUR COMMUNITY!

"I copied this from someone else. Very interesting and it really made me stop and think about using cash more often.
I have really never thought of this has anyone else?
💲Please understand what NOT
using cash is doing.
Cash is important. 💸
Why should we pay cash everywhere we can
with banknotes instead of a credit card? 💳
- I have a $50 banknote in my pocket.
Going to a restaurant and paying for dinner with it. The restaurant owner then uses the bill to pay for the laundry. The laundry owner then uses the bill to pay the barber. The barber will then use the bill for shopping.
After an unlimited number of payments, it will still remain a $50, which has fulfilled its purpose to everyone who used it for payment and the bank has jumped dry from every cash payment transaction made...
- But if I come to a restaurant and pay digitally - Card, and bank fees for my payment transaction charged to the seller are 3%, so around $1.50 and so will the fee $1.50 for each further payment transaction or owner re laundry or payments of the owner of the laundry shop, or payments of the barber etc.....
Therefore, after 30 transactions, the initial $50 will remain only $5 😫 and the remaining $45 became the property of the bank 🏦 thanks to all digital transactions and fees.
Small businesses need your help and this is one way to help ourselves too. Pull small draws of cash out at a time and use that instead of tap, credit, etc.
When this is put into perspective, imagine what each retailer is paying on a monthly basis in fees at 3% per transaction through their POS machine.
If they have, for example, $50,000 in sales & 90% are by Card, they are paying $1500 in fees in ONE Month. $18,000 in a year! That comes out of their income every month.
That would go a long way to helping that small business provide for its family!🏦♥️" got this from a good friend"


#FightTheCashlessSociety #SurveilanceState #StopSpyingOnUs #SocialCreditSystem #NSA #FBI #CIA #CIAMisconduct #USPolitics #Progressive #Green #EdwardSnowden #FreeSpeech #FreeAssembly #CivilLiberties
It's quite something that "educational" institutions in the United States are choosing to deploy teargas against student protesters. It's almost as if the ideals of free thinking and free speech students are told they are being educated to hold up and defend don't mean anything.

What, exactly, are universities like Columbia actually for in the US in 2024? They are making it very difficult to believe that they are for students. If not the students, who and what are they for, then?

#Columbia #US #Universities #HigherEd #FreeSpeech #FreeAssembly
CREEPY! Facial Recognition Is EVERYWHERE In China
https://youtu.be/fYtF6cS7Jp4

"You have to be facially recognized to take the subway and a fee is deducted directly from your bank account"

"That's scary to me"
"That's creepy."

"The government has everything, they have your vaccine status ..."

#SurveilanceSociety #SocialCredit #OrwellRolls #CivilLiberties #FreedomToTravel #FreeSpeech #FreeAssembly