Cashless Society
Cashless Society
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In early 2013 Guy Lidbetter, chief technology officer at Atos Global managed services stated the following
in an article in “The Guardian Online”.
“The infrastructure costs of maintaining a cash based economy are huge. Without it, consumers will become more directly
connected to the service and product providers when purchasing. This is already happening with people paying for a wide range
of services through the acquisition of mobile apps, which creates a whole new value chain and a new business model for
businesses of all sizes and sectors of the economy. The recent demise of the likes of Comet and HMV is not surprising as
businesses that are seen, perhaps a little unfairly, as failing to see the internet revolution in front of them. However, it doesn't
end there and businesses will continue to have to adapt to stay competitive, even today's so-called leaders.
The Kindle e-reader (and others) gives users the ability to purchase Amazon books directly from the device without the need for
an app and is a great example of a cashless payment device. People who might not normally use micro-payments are in fact
doing this every time they purchase a new book using their Kindle. Although Kindle users might not pay for a newspaper or
book in WHSmith using a contactless card, they naturally use cashless payments on their Kindle because it has brought about a
change in their behaviour. Amazon is now expanding the Kindle to music, films and magazines creating a culture of cashless
payments with people who are not necessarily even registering the change.
Over time mobile and contactless payments will become the preferred and even only payment channels for common purchases
and transactions. But in the UK this can only happen by parting with traditional and even entrenched reliance on cash and
accepting mobile and contactless payments as the norm.
Although mobile payments are becoming increasingly popular, there are still several challenges that need to be overcome to
enable mass take-up of mobile payments. However, as the adoption of the technology grows and business models evolve, the
role and relationships of the stakeholders in the whole payment value chain will inevitably change.”
In this weeks edition of the Global Watch Weekly we take a look at the rise of the cashless society and its
implications for the every day consumer.
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Among the long list of items bundled by consensus a good crisis in order to germinate its seed. The
reality merchants under the banner of‘ conspiracy cashless revolution is no different. It should be
theory’, is a world without cash– where technocrats abundantly clear by now that the global financial
rule over the populace, and everything and anything meltdown has been engineered at every juncture of
is exchanged via plastic and RFID chips. In this its unfolding by the very private central banks who
sterile and controlled Orwellian hi-tech society, the expand and contract the money supply. A Dollar or
idea of cash being passed from hand to hand would Euro collapse will trigger a global economic crisis,
be as archaic as the thought of carrying around a which is a prime opportunity to introduce the next
rucksack of tally sticks today. phase.
There has been a lot made about the ‘cashless China is moving towards a gold-backed currency
society’ in media, but this cannot fully happen until and has already agreed to buy the majority of its oil
there is a cashless currency. Every revolution needs supply from Russia off of the US Dollar peg.
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This could mean two things: the US could be forced With the SDR confined to the upper tier of the
to fight a war to maintain Dollar supremacy, or the international money launderette, a new product is
Dollar will begin to drop as the top dog. This shift still needed to dovetail with designs of a global
will open up a window of opportunity for money cashless society.
masters to insert not only a brand new global
currency, but also its universal cashless attributes Two new parallel currencies
as well. are currently being used
exclusively within the
Common sense and free market wisdom would electronic, or cashless
expect to see a sound money option replace the domain – Bitcoin and Ven.
current fiat disaster, but as we saw in Greece, a Among the many worries
great solution was not taken up and straddled with US Federal Reserve
the dysfunctional Euro, and that society will chairman Ben Bernanke
continue to pay the cost of that reality. The Euro listed was the emergence
crisis was a great opportunity to throw out the Euro of Bitcoin. But don’t believe for a second these
in favour of something that could create wealth, digital parallel currencies are not being watched
rather than debt. As the fiat currencies continue to over and even steered by the money masters.
slide downhill, globalists are preparing their solution Couple this latest trend with done deals by most of
behind closed doors. the world’s largest mobile networks to allow people
to pay via a mobile ‘wallet’, and you now have the
CASHLESS CURRENCY initial enabler for a new global electronic currency.
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THE ELECTRONIC DEUTSCHE MARK technology, acclimatising the international public to
making routine payments via smartphones. VISA
Much is made of Germany’s prominent financial now predicts that this new method will carry 50 per
position within the EU, with a popular talking point cent of its transaction volume by the year 2020.
being that, “Germany is carrying the majority of the
load in ‘bailing out’ countries such as Greece in the
south.” If the Euro is ‘heading south’ as many a
financial commentator are claiming, then how would
a country like Germany – or even the Federal
Reserve for that matter – hedge their bets with an
impending currency collapse looming just over the
horizon?
Mastercard has also rolled out its own version
Economics professor Miles Kimball from the called Paypass, and Barclaycard has already
University of Michigan thinks he knows the answer: implemented its own mobile phone payment chip in
2011. It’s conceivable here that a bank like Barclays
In short, for a smooth transition, a reintroduced mark needs to be an could one day takeover a major mobile service
electronic mark. I recently made the case for the electronic dollar in provider in order to streamline the endless profits it
a previous Quartz column, “EMoney: How paper currency is holding
the US recovery back.” The trouble with paper money is that the rate could accrue from monopolising cashless payment
of facilities for its customers.
interest people earn on holding paper money puts a floor on the
interest rate they are willing to accept in doing any other lending. For
the US, I proposed making the electronic dollar the “unit of account”
or economic yardstick for prices and other economic values, and
having the Federal Reserve control the exchange rate between
electronic dollars and paper dollars to make paper dollars gradually
fall in value relative to electronic dollars during periods of time
when the Fed wants room to make the interest rate negative. In the
case of Germany, there would be no need to reintroduce a paper
mark along with the electronic mark, since the euro itself could
continue in its current role as a “medium of exchange” for making
purchases in Germany, alongside the electronic mark. A “crawling
peg” exchange rate could be used to let the electronic mark gradually
go up in value relative to the euro, without causing a huge rush into
the mark, since with no paper mark other than the euro itself, interest
rates in Germany could be close to zero when measured in euros,
which would make them strongly negative in terms of marks.
A recent edition of Marketing Week further explains
A Dollar or Euro crash could be the perfect storm for how this program is being rolled out:
the introduction of major global digital currencies,
Barclays launched Pingit this year, a mobile payment service that
and this will do nothing but fast-track our entry into allows customers to send and receive money with a mobile phone
the new cashless society. number, which has sparked The Payments Council to work on a
similar project. And the three leading mobile operators in the UK –
CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS EE, Vodafone and O2 – are working on a joint project under the
name Weve, one of the aims of which is to develop standardised
technology for ‘digital wallets’ on mobile.
This past year’s London Olympics was a beta
testing exercise for a number of new programs. We These industry innovations reflect the changing
witnessed troops deployed en mass for the first time attitude and behaviour by consumers to cashless payments. Barry
to marshal the international sporting event and new Clark, account director at Future Foundation, which identified the
facial recognition technology tested to monitor its trend towards a cashless society in its recent report into the changing
face of payments, explains that this move towards digital is a
attendees. “banking nirvana” for brands, since replacing cash with electronic
payments takes high costs out of the system.
One of the chief sponsors of the 2012 London
Olympics was VISA, which used the event as a These mobile enablers will effectively cover the
springboard to launch its new ‘contactless payment’ small services and contractor’s market for the
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cashless society. In addition, digital payment EBT cards create high-profit handouts to corporations, too:
terminals like iZettle and Square (created by Twitter Pharmaceutical companies and the sick-care industry; Big
Government which gets re-elected based on entitlement handouts;
co-founder Jack Dorsey), have brought in most global banks which earn a percentage off every swipe; and even the
small traders, including taxi drivers, plumbers etc, processed junk food industry which preys upon nutritional ignorance
and street side retailers – meaning that the barrier of the poor.
for entry into the new cashless society has been
effectively dissolved. In fact, for every dollar’s
worth of food handed
THE SOCIALIST OYSTER out to EBT recipients
under the program, at
The darker aspect of a cashless society is one least 50 cents is driven
which few are debating or discussing, but is actually right into the profit
the most pivotal in terms of social engineering and coffers of wealthy
transforming communities and societies. In London, corporations. Adams
the electronic touch payment Oyster Card was points out the endgame
introduced in 2003, initially for public transport, and here. Where collectivist
since that time the card has been co-opted to be technocrats are
used for other functions, as the UK beta tests the concerned, a global
idea of an all-in-one cashless lifestyle solution. digital currency is not
only a means for a centrally controlled economy, but
Ironically, it’s the United States, supposedly the also a centrally controlled society. And as Adams
birthplace of modern capitalism, which is beta also pointed out,
testing its own socialist technocracy. As the ranks of they can even control what you eat.
the poor and unemployed grow and inflation rises in
America, more and more people are dependent on Bottom line: the State can, and will cut-off your
traditional ‘Food Stamp’ entitlements in order to electronic financial lifeline should you fall foul of the
feed their families. The US has now introduced its system. No negotiations, no gray areas – and
own socialist ‘Oyster’ to replace the old Food Stamp definitely no place for a free individual in this type of
program. It’s called the ‘EBT’, which stands for globalist system.
“Electronic Benefit Transfer,” as a means of
transferring money from the central government to SOCIAL NETWORKS TO SUPPLANT NATIONS
people living below the poverty line. Advocate Mike
Adams for Natural News describes it another way: In 2011 Facebook launched its own virtual currency,
which was taken up immediately by the games
developer industry. Facebook created its own
internal digital market overnight. If customers
didn’t like it, they had two choices – jump ship, or
stay in the biggest market place. That’s a lot of
power to wield, and you can wield it if you have the
big numbers.
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dictate a digital economic mandate to both same ruling establishment who engineered the
producers and consumer. crisis to begin with, masterfully presented their own
solution as the remedy by establishing the
The digital data industry now claims in a recent precedent of the State bailing out any gambling
study by fast.MAP that consumer confidence in losses incurred by the banking community.
sharing personal information has risen. But the
reality is that most people do not know which data is In the end society relented, and with the help of pro-
being used and to who it is being shared or sold to. banking political leadership on both sides of the
Most users are unknowingly trading “access” to Atlantic, they adopted the pre-packaged belief that a
networks, as well convenient speed of registration – cluster of bloated and corrupt financial institutions
for data privacy. We do this on a daily basis now. were simply too big to fail.
It’s a question of speculation at this point how Aside from being a massive redistribution of wealth
deeply the new digital currencies will be integrated upwards into the hands of the speculative elite
into social networking giants like Facebook, or classes, this was merely a test by the establishment
Second Life – where users are already buying to see how far they could go in robbing the public,
virtual property with virtual currency, but few can pushing up inflation, hoovering up real assets,
deny that the potential for consolidation in the early robbing pension funds and enslaving taxpayers to
21st century is already there. generations of debt the bankers created – all in one
swoop.
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