cashless society

[phantom power]

[brooklynite]

1. You could probably post this at FreeRepublic and it would go over just as well...

How, by the way, do you feel about those silly pieces of paper that represent value only because the evil government says so? Or do you pay for everything in lose change?

[phantom power]

6. I don't, as a rule, worry about whether conservatives will accidentally agree with me

[hobbit709]

2. How would politicians hide their bribes?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. Gift cards?

[Cartoonist]

3. I'm doomed

I lost a judgement to a creditor. That gives them the legal right to seize money from any account I have. Therefore, I have to pay for everything cash only. I can have no checking account, savings account, or even a pre-paid debit card. This results in fee after fee for many services because I can't play electronically.

[KatyMan]

7. We had a similar issue a few years ago

We had to cash our paychecks, but we were able to get a NetSpend card, which is basically a credit/debit card that you load, so it made it much easier to manage paying bills, etc. The creditor in question never seized that money, I guess it's off the grid, so to speak.

good luck!

[Demit]

4. I don't get what the passport panel has to do with a cashless society.

Kind of incoherent cartoon. It seems to be about the power of government, but then the first frame wouldn't fit. Also, in the last frame, why would a self-guided plane need a person to guide it? This cartoon isn't very well thought out.

[phantom power]

5. the logic goes like this:

first frame: the ability to pay with cash is in decline. The restaurant is being used as an example of a place where you can't eat, if you have cash but no credit card. The gist is: in the future being off the grid, with cash, will be effectively impossible.

second and 3rd frames: once our identities and assets are purely on-line (which, pragmatically, is already the case, but at least for now you can in theory exist outside the internet), we can have our identities and/or money taken from us instantaneously and remotely, by somebody we'll never meet and for reasons we'll never know.

fourth frame: with drone technology, the power described in frames 2 and 3 extends to physically killing us.

[REP]

9. Pretty hard to buy an airline ticket without a credit or debit card - first panel is in an airport

[Demit]

11. Yes, as I said, an incoherent theme.

The cartoon title is "Cashless Society." Two of the four scenarios don't illustrate that; in fact, they don't relate to it at all. It's a weak cartoon. But thanks for replying.

[conservaphobe]

10. THE GUBMINT GONNA GET ME... AHHHHH!

[onethatcares]

12. for anyone that makes

a bit of money in "cash" a cashless society will kick them in the teeth. Our revenue agents are much more interested in someone making an extra $100.00 and not paying taxes on it than multi billion corporations taking their profits out of the system and overseas where they can claim "tax inversion".

We live in a sick country

hell, as a dumb old carpenter I understood the cartoon.