{"id":31686,"date":"2018-02-27T16:48:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31686"},"modified":"2018-02-27T16:48:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:48:56","slug":"silicon-valley-joins-war-on-cash-tim-cook-seeks-elimination-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31686","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Joins War On Cash: Tim Cook Seeks &#8220;Elimination Of Money&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-02-25\/silicon-valley-joins-war-cash-tim-cook-seeks-elimination-money\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Silicon Valley Joins War On Cash: Tim Cook Seeks &#8220;Elimination Of Money&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook has one big hope for the future &#8211; that he lives to see the end of money.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;&#8230;I&#8217;m hoping that I&#8217;m still going to be alive to see the elimination of money.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking at a meeting for Apple shareholders in Cupertino, California earlier this month, Cook made it clear that he is firmly on the side of the war-on-cash establishment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Because why would you have this stuff! Why go through all the expense of printing this stuff and then some people steal it, and you&#8217;ve got to worry about counterfeits and all these things,&#8221;<\/strong> he continued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Apple&#8217;s CEO talked about the downsides of cash, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tim-cook-wants-to-end-money-apple-pay-full-comments-shareholder-meeting-2018-2\">BI reported <\/a>that he became more animated, revealing his real passion about the topic&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;We can provide a solution for the customer that&#8217;s simpler, more convenient, you don&#8217;t carry around a wallet with a bunch of cards in it, or a purse with a bunch of cards in it,&#8221;<\/strong> Cook said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it&#8217;s more secure, if you&#8217;ve ever had your credit card ripped off, I&#8217;m sure a lot of you have, I have, it&#8217;s not a good experience.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018-02-25_10-57-41.jpg?itok=a3T1zxpg\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018-02-25_10-57-41.jpg?itok=a3T1zxpg\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018-02-25_10-57-41.jpg?itok=a3T1zxpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-02-18\/end-economic-liberty-war-cash-wont-end-well\"><strong>Until now, it has tended to be politicians and central bankers leading the call for a cashless society<\/strong><\/a>&#8230; for your own good.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The enemies of cash claim that only crooks and cranks need large-denomination bills.<\/strong> They want large transactions to be made electronically so government can follow them. Yet these are some of the same European politicians who blew a gasket when they learned that U.S. counterterrorist officials were monitoring money through the Swift global system. Criminals will find a way, large bills or not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley Joins War On Cash: Tim Cook Seeks &#8220;Elimination Of Money&#8221; Apple CEO Tim Cook has one big hope for the future &#8211; that he lives to see the end of money. &#8220;&#8230;I&#8217;m hoping that I&#8217;m still going to be alive to see the elimination of money.&#8221; Speaking at a meeting for Apple shareholders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,1035,1034,124,18987,5432,9252,12494,4927,4318],"class_list":["post-31686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-apple","tag-cash","tag-cashless-society","tag-central-banks","tag-elimination-of-money","tag-physical-cash","tag-silicon-valley","tag-tim-cook","tag-war-on-cash","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31687,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31686\/revisions\/31687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}