3 minutes ago, Chivas said:

Seriously fella and not for the first time pop off and troll elsewhere

No need to be cantankerous. 

You are complaining about your bank in Basingstoke being far away and it turns out you are using a Scottish bank! 

Like me saying I live in John O Groats and my nearest Bank of England is far away.

I pay by scanning whenever i can, street food, golf, 7 Eleven, actually i might start paying women by scanning too

1 hour ago, cooked said:

Anybody see the video where Kurt Schwab, president of the WEF, wants everyone to have a chip implanted in their brain? "Think of that".. he thinks it'll solve everything, can't even imagine that some may not want that.  You'll be able to use it for getting social credit points, permission to travel abroad, to support the latest official line, spend money, say what you think. You can't change human nature, but you can change human behaviour. This isn't a conspiracy theory, they keep telling us what they want to do and nobody listens.

Yes it used to be a conspiracy theory  but when digital ID and BCDC currency becomes reality we will give up control of a large part of our lives.Our privacy among other things will be compromised.The CBDC will be programmable at the gov'ts whim.Ask a Canadian trucker protester how it feels to have your bank accounts frozen during that time.  

2 hours ago, Sandboxer said:

It's 2023. The only people who still need cash are criminals and folks who refuse to let go of archaic methods and probably still write checks ('Murica, lol). We can afford to leave those types behind us. Unnecessary baggage.

It may be time to euthanize the elderly and sterilize the poor too. Unnecessary baggage.

This is happening everywhere, not only in Thailand.

Once central bank digital currency will be in use and cash completely disappered, freedom of movement and speech will be something from the past, togheter with our privacy.

Once digital payments and digital ID are integrated, all items will have a CO2 score.

The climate scam is being used as the license to impose any decision they (WEF, UN, WHO, etc) want. They will add limits affecting your personal travelling, eating, habits, ownership of vehicles, etc. This is not conspiracy theory, go to the website of the World Economic Forum, it's everything written there, it's official.

 

This is the world they're planning for us:

 

https://rumble.com/vbovq3-the-great-reset-from-the-world-economic-forum.html

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030/?sh=dcc400a17350

 

Do not say you hadn't been warned.

 

 

I hate it makes for a total time delay vacuum.  People paying 20b using their phones.  Stand there and watch the item being rung up, get the phone from their pocket or purse, open phone, screw around trying to find the app, try 2 or 3 times until it finally goes thru all the while the line waiting gets longer. Stupid and ridiculous maybe try keeping a few baht in your pocket.

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

I see smartphones used by dumb people at the Big C checkouts, taking 3 or 4 times as long to pay while I am waiting with cash.

Yes, this happens to me a lot. Maybe it's different in big cities but in our rural Big C I frequently get held up by someone paying with their smartphone.  So I asked the cashiers. In your experience which method of payment is fastest and more convenient for you , cash , debit card or QR code. They all say cash is fastest. 

44 minutes ago, pub2022 said:

This is happening everywhere, not only in Thailand.

Once central bank digital currency will be in use and cash completely disappered, freedom of movement and speech will be something from the past, togheter with our privacy.

Once digital payments and digital ID are integrated, all items will have a CO2 score.

The climate scam is being used as the license to impose any decision they (WEF, UN, WHO, etc) want. They will add limits affecting your personal travelling, eating, habits, ownership of vehicles, etc. This is not conspiracy theory, go to the website of the World Economic Forum, it's everything written there, it's official.

 

This is the world they're planning for us:

 

https://rumble.com/vbovq3-the-great-reset-from-the-world-economic-forum.html

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030/?sh=dcc400a17350

 

Do not say you hadn't been warned.

 

 

All very sinister

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Er, no, it does not take a Thai "too long" to open a bank account.

It does for people who have unofficial businesses, was in an research article about KYC and banks in Thailand about a year ago. don't have the link anymore.

A reported baiting troll post has been removed as well as a personal attack.

1 hour ago, pub2022 said:

Do not say you hadn't been warned.

About yet another "Conspiracy Theory"!

1 hour ago, pub2022 said:

This is happening everywhere, not only in Thailand.

Once central bank digital currency will be in use and cash completely disappered, freedom of movement and speech will be something from the past, togheter with our privacy.

Once digital payments and digital ID are integrated, all items will have a CO2 score.

The climate scam is being used as the license to impose any decision they (WEF, UN, WHO, etc) want. They will add limits affecting your personal travelling, eating, habits, ownership of vehicles, etc. This is not conspiracy theory, go to the website of the World Economic Forum, it's everything written there, it's official.

 

This is the world they're planning for us:

 

https://rumble.com/vbovq3-the-great-reset-from-the-world-economic-forum.html

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030/?sh=dcc400a17350

 

Do not say you hadn't been warned.

 

 

You are 100% correct pub..this will be a slow process in the guise of making it all more convenient for you . Slowly eroding your rights and privacy.The working class will no longer have the ability to jet off to the beach for a 2 week holiday to escape winter.Your carbon footprint will forbid unnecessary travel.All documented in you digital ID and CBDC.    

I'm reminded every time we have a fai-dap (a couple of times a month on average) just how fragile this ridiculously complicated system is. Add in all the potential holes in the very many systems involved that hackers are beavering away at and it seems crazy, until I remember who is pushing it.........

4 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Something that isn't happening, every small 7-11 is not being closed!

In Phuket it is !!!

5 hours ago, Sandboxer said:

It's 2023. The only people who still need cash are criminals

100% disagree with this, half the population if not more shop at markets, and sure QR is eating into trade, but it's still predominantly cash based society.

 

The problem I've highlighted is because I usually need cash to pay for day to day etc when in little shops/stalls/etc.

 

As for Criminals only this or that, had a neighbour sprout this before "nothing to hide", "no reason for cash", only recently left and now trying to figure out how to get his money out of Thailand.

3 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

It may be time to euthanize the elderly and sterilize the poor too. Unnecessary baggage.

And there are millions of us.

 

14 minutes ago, Jenkins9039 said:

 

 

15 minutes ago, Jenkins9039 said:

In Phuket it is !!!

But Phuket is only a very small part of Thailand.

The Cashless Society. Horror. Even more the transparent citizen. If every purchase can then be assigned to exactly one specific person. Then buy regular stomach or cough syrup in the supermarket with your QR code. Then you don't have to be surprised afterwards if the bank terminates your life insurance - due to the higher risk.

 

With acceptance of the cashless society, citizens would give up a large part of their freedom.

Cash is king.  You'll miss it when it's gone.

 

I only use banking apps to pay bills.  Everything else, cash.  Use it or lose it.

3 hours ago, pub2022 said:

The climate scam

there will be more controls on how people spend their money.

but they're not doing it just because they get their rocks off controlling people.

climate is not a 'scam'.

have you figured out how to handle the problem of millions of migrants being displaced due to environmental issues? 

of course not. it's above your pay grade. 

 

4 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Eleven, actually i might start paying women by scanning too

serious question.

if all cash disappears, how to pay for bar girls?

 

6 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

serious question.

if all cash disappears, how to pay for bar girls?

 

Then you have to buy gold jewelry in small units for pay. This has been working for a long time.

 

But that could cause trouble later when the government decides to tax gold ownership. If you bought it with QR before.

Edited July 1, 20233 yr by tomacht8

6 hours ago, Sandboxer said:

It's 2023. The only people who still need cash are criminals

I see ATMs everywhere, just used one at Macro to finance my life of crime, 

Edited July 1, 20233 yr by sirineou
too many keys next to the one I want to use

6 hours ago, cooked said:

the video where Kurt Schwab, president of the WEF, wants everyone to have a chip implanted in their brain?

No idea who Kurt Schwab is.  The president of the WEF is Klaus Schwab.  And pretty sure he's never said he wants everyone to have a chip implanted in their brain or, indeed, in any other body part.

Cash is also a store of value. Without cash, for example, savers can no longer avoid the low interest rates controlled by central banks and passed on by commercial banks by withdrawing their money. Citizens then only have the choice between real expropriation and forced consumption.

36 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

serious question.

if all cash disappears, how to pay for bar girls?

 

they have bank accounts so will have their own QR code like we do, just scan their QR code and pay that way

We moved back to pay now the salaries in cash in envelopes again and all I order, if somehow possible is cash on delivery.

 

18 minutes ago, tomacht8 said:

Cash is also a store of value. Without cash, for example, savers can no longer avoid the low interest rates controlled by central banks and passed on by commercial banks by withdrawing their money. Citizens then only have the choice between real expropriation and forced consumption.

And if you oppose government, they can delete/block your digital money...not your cash

22 minutes ago, Foxx said:

No idea who Kurt Schwab is.  The president of the WEF is Klaus Schwab.  And pretty sure he's never said he wants everyone to have a chip implanted in their brain or, indeed, in any other body part.

his brother? ????

What Klaus speaks is bad enough...but didn't hear chips in the brain yet

19 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

they have bank accounts so will have their own QR code like we do, just scan their QR code and pay that way

LoL

and once the bank has an overview of what you spend your money on: bar visits, girls, drinks, condoms, casino, lottery, holiday destinations, massage, motorbike rental, etc. don't be surprised if your credit lines are terminated.