{"id":52503,"date":"2020-04-15T06:44:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T11:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52503"},"modified":"2020-04-15T06:44:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T11:44:30","slug":"covid-19-and-the-war-on-cash-what-is-behind-the-push-for-a-cashless-society-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52503","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society? [SHORT]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/covid_19_and_the_war_on_cash_what_is_behind_the_push_for_a_cashless_society_short\">COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society? [SHORT]<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Cash may well become a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As these COVID-19 lockdowns drag out,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/health\/dirty-money-cash-shunned-for-fear-of-coronavirus-spread\/6032432\/\">more and more individuals and businesses are going cashless<\/a>&nbsp;(for convenience and in a so-called effort to avoid spreading coronavirus germs), engaging in online commerce or using digital forms of currency (bank cards, digital wallets, etc.). As a result, physical cash is no longer king.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet there are other, more devious, reasons for this re-engineering of society away from physical cash: a cashless society\u2014easily monitored, controlled, manipulated, weaponized and locked down\u2014would play right into the hands of the government (and its corporate partners).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To this end, the government and its corporate partners-in-crime have been waging a subtle war on cash for some time now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is this war on cash?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a concerted campaign to shift consumers towards a digital mode of commerce that can easily be monitored, tracked, tabulated, mined for data, hacked, hijacked and confiscated when convenient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/steveforbes\/2016\/03\/01\/the-great-cash-grab\/#4712f7646dc4\">economist Steve Forbes<\/a>, \u201cThe real reason for this war on cash\u2014start with the big bills and then work your way down\u2014is an ugly power grab by Big Government. People will have less privacy: Electronic commerce makes it easier for Big Brother to see what we\u2019re doing, thereby making it simpler to bar activities it doesn\u2019t like, such as purchasing salt, sugar, big bottles of soda and Big Macs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much like the war on drugs and the war on terror, this so-called \u201cwar on cash\u201d is being sold to the public as a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/steveforbes\/2016\/03\/01\/the-great-cash-grab\/#4712f7646dc4\">means of fighting terrorists, drug dealers, tax evaders<\/a>&nbsp;and now COVID-19 germs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital currency provides the government and its corporate partners with the ultimate method to track, control you and punish you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society? [SHORT] Cash may well become a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. As these COVID-19 lockdowns drag out,&nbsp;more and more individuals and businesses are going cashless&nbsp;(for convenience and in a so-called effort to avoid spreading coronavirus germs), engaging in online commerce [&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":[2,6],"tags":[1035,29011,4955,13197,6300,855,4927],"class_list":["post-52503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-cash","tag-covid-19","tag-digital-currency","tag-john-w-whitehead","tag-the-rutherford-institute","tag-viral-pandemic","tag-war-on-cash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52503","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=52503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52504,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52503\/revisions\/52504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}