Asklemmy

I suspect you have some unhinged notions about banks and/or the government and/or cashless transactions, but because you didn’t say why we should do this thing you suggest, I don’t know what specific unhinged notions you have.

Why though? What's the benefit?

I think you'd be better off pushing for a mental health awareness month...

Why?

The majority of my expenses come out with direct deposit and can't be paid with cash even if I wanted to.

Two questions:

1. Eating bugs is not an abnormal human behavior, and it is not uncommon in cuisine across the world. So I don’t see how that’s a negative thing, inherently?

2. How would using cash translate into a message of “people power”? You’re still paying the same amount of the same currency for the same product, just in a different form.

Just notice how much you got and not spend anything besides the absolute necessary like cooking groceries (no sweets, etc.) and non-essential services like Netflix, going out, eating out.
No need to take money from the bank and risk a 3000€ pay check running around.

We’ve been found out. Deploy the black helicopters.

Many cashiers would hate this idea. It would slow things down considerably. We’d run out of change all the time. Already I run into problems with people paying for an $8 purchase with a fucking hundred.

That’s a big NO to #CashAwarenessMonth from me.

Maybe I'm old-school, but every paycheck I take out a few hundred to act as my spending money. I mostly frequent small businesses and I know they prefer cash to avoid fees (and possibly taxes but that's none of my business). It also helps with budgeting.

Or you could just put your money in a credit union...

What about my mortgage? What about my bills? I’m down to retake power, but is this how?

Now you see, if you just said something like "I'm tired of banks creating money out of thin air and getting bailouts when they gamble and lose, so how about we show them they should value us more instead of ruining our economy like with the 2008 crash, because if we all pull our money out they have no money left, like if all people in the world stopped paying taxes for a year, or stopped believing in money, the governments would be incapable of detaining you or that people should not be afraid of governments, corporations and their employers, instead the above should be scared of the people" I would've been all in, but with the direction you took it, I think I'll pass. Oh wait.

I found the mugger that thinks cashless is damaging their business! ^

Credit card companies increased their fees in October. Did they do anything for merchants or cardholders to increase the quality of service a commensurate amount? No. They decided to increase their transaction fees due to greed alone.

You should spend cash, at least at merchants you like. If you pay $20 in cash, the recipient gets $20. If you pay by card the recipient gets significantly less.