What the Banks Say...

If you don't buy what we are saying about the coming cashless society, would you listen to a major international corporation like say... MasterCard? This graphic was copied from the MasterCard website at http://www.mastercard.com.

Here's what MasterCard plans for your future, today!


Imagine a world full of new places where you don't need cash -- like taxis, the post office, the corner store. And new, convenient, more secure ways to pay. Like smart cards that actually store electronic cash and information inside them. And when you do need cash, you have instant access to it absolutely anywhere. That's the future of money. And it's MasterCard ® today.
 
 

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If you have not noticed the long ongoing MasterCard advertising campaign promoting biometric idenfication and the obsolescence of cash, then you don't get out of the bathroom very much or you just don't pay much attention to what is going on around you.

And this is nothing new! In 1993 I clearly remember a 30 minute infomercial entitled "How to Survive in Tomorrows Cashless Society!"

Ok! Ok! So we are going cashless and there's nothing we can do about it. Now we won't be able to buy pot anymore, we'll have to declare our "income" from the summer garage sale on our tax return, and we won't be able to traffic in automatic weapons anymore... But look at the benefits of going cashless, blah, blah, blah. The benefits certainly outweigh the risks...

Or do they? Click here for more...