Car guards going cashless in South Africa can often double their income

Digital payment solution Street Wallet is helping car guards across South Africa to increase and sometimes even double their daily income in an increasingly cashless society, the Sunday Times reports.

Street Wallet offers customers multiple ways of paying, including Scan to Pay using a quick response (QR) code, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, SnapScan, and Zapper.

Andre Ilunga, a car guard in the Camps Bay area in Cape Town, told the Times that everything has changed for him since he started using the app.

Because most people did not tip him due to a lack of cash, he now makes nearly double what he would typically have made in a day.

So true, I often don’t have cash, or have a negligible amount as it costs money to draw cash, and I must make a special stop somewhere to get cash. Just about everything today accepts a card or online payment. I probably only draw some cash about three times a year, and that usually goes for card guards over a period of time.

Even domestic workers today, and garden services, accept EFT or other payments. We’ve had more than one domestic worker in our suburb get robbed of their cash at month end. It’s not really safe to carry cash, and cash is actually pretty filthy to handle (hygienically-wise). I suppose some will comment that is why cash gets laundered

The app being mentioned in the article does not require the car guard to even have a bank account — they get a digital voucher that can be exchanged for cash at a bank (one hopes that they can receive their funds electronically too though as an option).

But what is of extreme concern, are some stats given in the linked article about how few people actually have access to the Internet from their homes, and in rural areas it is almost non-existent. This is a major stumbling block to a digital economy.

At R85 per gigabyte, mobile data prices in 2022 were three times as high as in North Africa and double the price in Western Europe, according to the report.

See mybroadband.co.za/news/banking…
#Blog, #cashless, #digitaleconomy, #southafrica, #technology

#Paris #Olympics #fail #cash #cashless #woke #migrant-crisis #KEK

Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society

Supermarkets, banks, pubs, cafes, train stations and airports were all hit by the failure of #Microsoft systems on Friday, leaving many unable to accept electronic payments. The impact was especially severe for businesses that no longer accept cash.

The Payment Choice Alliance (PCA), which campaigns against the move towards a cashless society, lists 23 firms and groups, at least some of whose outlets take only credit or debit cards.

“There will always be outages,” said Ron Delnevo, the PCA’s chair. “But if there is no alternative, then the whole thing can collapse around you.”

Cash payments increased for the first time in a decade last year, according to UK Finance, which represents banks

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/20/cash-global-it-outage-cashless-society-dangers-payment-choice-alliance

#money #cash #DigitalMoney #Cashless #digital

#cashless hell
9 Major Risks of a Cashless Society
Sevenwop.home.blog is no linger available
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/04/no_author/9-major-risks-of-a-cashless-society/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=icnMvYK1i_E

#WORLD #CRITICAL - RISK OF UNSTOPPABLE GOVERNMENT #FRAUD / CHILD TRAFFICKING

There are mounting concerns regarding this decades long International Government fraud and its very close links to a huge child trafficking network and our Politicians.

You will see from this video that the #SWIFT #financial #system is now expediting a migration to #digital #currency, moving us closer to a #cashless #Society.

This cannot happen and now imminently risks enslaving the public into a criminal network heavily linked to child trafficking.

Despite being a former Police Officer and contacting numerous organisations and almost 650 Members of Parliament, none are responding as they should, if at all. This is only highlighting the concerns even further.

I urge you to increase the pressure on your local councils and our national Government to address this as a matter of urgency. It really is the cause of most of the problems on the planet.

These people are appearing to be an increasingly imminent and serious risk to us all, particularly if cash is removed from society as appears to be their intention. This may mean we cannot withhold tax as a peaceful form of protest to any criminality they are involved in.

Short Film | "Utopia" [15m 3s]

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This fifteen-minute funny but thought-provoking #shortfilm is about a man who returns to his home country and encounters a society where citizens police each other using their mobile phones.

• Language Warning: Some expletives.
• https://youtu.be/vJYaXy5mmA8?si=mvIW9KA3LTCz0SeB

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#agency #cashless #film #freedom #mobile #movie #omeleto #shortfilm #shorts #society #smartphones #surveillance #utopía

#KNOCK SHRINE #IRELAND INTRODUCES #CASHLESS Braindead SOCIETY, STOP FOLLOWING ALL RELIGIONS SLAVES (1ST JUL)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/mX2TQN7wpIX7/

#VACCINESCAM SATANIC DEATH CULT EVIL AGENDA
This is #how they will try to get the jab into everyone - into every baby - every child - every citizen -

For the (covert) purposes of #transhumanism, #population control, mass infertility, full spectrum control and tracking... disguised as ' #Health Care' ...

The key to it is a #cashless society using #Digital #Currency linked to a #Social #Credit #System - what's happening in #Brazil is an illustration of how it starts... forcing people needing benefits to get themselves and their children injected -

Lula Imposes COVID Vaccine Mandate For Children To Receive Gov’t Benefits

https://www.infowars.com/posts/lula-...govt-benefits/

Quote Lula said the government vaccine mandate is for the greater good, even if it means citizens take 10 or 50 vaccines.

“For God’s sake, we can’t be ignorant to the point of thinking it’s not worth getting vaccinated,” he said.

“I keep asking myself what kind of love does this mother have for her children, that she doesn’t take care of them at the most important moment when they can be vaccinated and can avoid a more delicate disease in their lives,” Lula continued.

“We can’t hesitate; we can’t play around. It is a question of science,” he said, seemingly ignoring the mountains of evidence the experimental mRNA injection is not only ineffective, but can also lead to a number of adverse neurological and cardiovascular side effects.

“If there are ten COVID vaccines, 50 to take, I will take as many as necessary because I like my life. I think everyone has a duty to their children’s life, take them [to vaccinate] at the right age, that’s why they say the Bolsa Família is coming back,” Lula said.

The announcement marks a major policy reversal since Bolsonaro, who stepped down after a contentious election in November, rejected the COVID vaccine mandate.

Meanwhile, Lula flew to Washington, D.C., on Friday to meet with fellow puppet president Joe Biden for a bilateral meeting praising each other’s far-left policies.

#big #beast is here

The de facto head of His Majesty’s Treasury announced this week that the Bank of England has begun consultations on implementing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) that could usher in the globalist vision of a #cashless society in which all transactions are traceable by the #government.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt revealed that, as a part of his ‘Edinburgh Reforms’ of Britain’s financial services, the Bank of England will begin consultations on the design of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) which would act as a digital version of the pound sterling.

Hunt, an anti-Brexit, pro-China figure resurrected from the David Cameron era, said in a written statement to Parliament that the government will begin “bringing forward a consultation in the coming weeks to explore the case for a central bank digital currency – a sovereign digital pound – and consult on a potential design.”

“The Bank of England will also release a Technology Working Paper setting out cutting-edge technology considerations informing the potential build of a digital pound,” he added.

In contrast to Bitcoin, which functions on a decentralised basis in which no single person can control its functions, ownership, or value, a CBDC would be similar to traditional fiat currency issued by a central bank, such as the Bank of England, and therefore could suffer from the same inflation issues if the central bank decided to issue more of it — like printing cash.

Should a CBDC replace hard currency altogether, the government would be able to track every purchase or transaction made by the public.

The Bank of England has also admitted that a digital pound could be “programmable“, meaning that the government could potentially add mechanisms to prevent people from spending their own money on things the state disapproves.

This has led to concerns that Western governments could implement a system akin to the social credit score in Communist China, which has already been used to blacklist millions of citizens from travelling, including those who dissented against the authoritarian rule of Chairman Xi Jinping.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who was essentially endorsed by Chinese state media in the contest to replace Boris Johnson as PM — which he lost — and who married into the multi-billion Infosys tech dynasty in India, has been at the forefront of pushing for the introduction of a CBDC in Britain.

Central Bank Digital Currencies are also heavily supported by the globalist Davos-based World Economic Forum (WEF), which listed it among the technologies that will “change the world by 2027“.

The WEF said that Central Bank Digital Currencies will “revolutionise the financial system” through “increasing financial inclusion and improving the lives of billions of people globally by providing access to cheap and affordable financial services.”

“For banks and issuers, they’ll be able to integrate their existing infrastructure and be able to provide a broad spectrum of CBDC-linked payment-related services and exercise cross-chain interoperability protocols for universal payment access to digital national currencies, stablecoins, NFTs, the Metaverse and much more,” the WEF suggested.

Alongside the nominally Conservative government in the United Kingdom, the Biden administration in the United States and the European Union are also both working towards the implementation of digital versions of their currencies.

#cashless society

Ah, great, people are mightily pissed off at this looming #cashless #society

(I think the proposed closure of all these banks and cash machines has been overturned)
photo from Roscrea, Co Tipperary, Ireland.