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by tosihakkeri 1062 days ago
> I don't want my bank knowing everything about my diet etc.

Germans have a certain paranoia. I understand where it comes from but how are you ever going to move on if you hold these beliefs so tightly?

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I find it odd to phrase it as "move on" given the direction much of the rest of the world is headed. Anytime things become digitized, the centuries of civil and social rights, rights which people fought and died for, end up getting completely thrown to the wayside. The exact same would happen to money.

In some ways we're already seeing the foreshadowing of this in some of the previously most liberal places on Earth, like Canada. Even if one may not agree with what the truckers were protesting about, it seems unconscionable to freeze people's bank accounts as punishment for engaging in, or supporting, a completely and genuinely peaceful protest. [1]

[1] - https://fortune.com/2022/02/16/trudeau-freeze-freedom-convoy...

How is cash helping with this? Should we start storing the notes under our mattresses or? Sorry I’m not sure I understand your point.
People got their bank accounts frozen because they contributed to fundraisers for the trucker protest. If they could contribute to the protesters using a more private method of payment, they wouldn't be subject to these authoritarian retributions from the government.
In the 1930s, "Progress" was the replacement of a relatively free society with Nazi authoritarianism. In the 1940s, "Progress" (for half of the country) was the replacement of Nazi authoritarianism, where the secret police mostly targeted ethnic/political/sexual minorities, with Soviet authoritarianism, where the secret police targeted literally everyone and everything. So perhaps that is an object lesson in the value of not "moving on" from a relatively good situation
Tell me who you believe has moved on, and myself and other commenters will share with you how they're being stabbed.