Maybe December? So we all take money out of banks, at least current month salary, and spend cash only. I think that is something that shouldn't be hard to do and it would show if we, the people, have any power left to make positive changes for the future or we can just surrender and eat bugs.

Edit:

If I’m trading my only true value, my time, then I want to have 100% control over it, not to depend if some bank would freeze my account and I lost 1/3 of my life irreversible.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    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.

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        The “digital dollar” is a bullshit marketing term. Everyone knows that the vast majority of Canadian & US dollars are already digital ones. Conspiracy theorists have morphed a bullshit marketing gimmick into… whatever they’ve morphed it into; I don’t listen to them so I couldn’t say.

        RFK has all sorts of batshit ideas, like his antisemitic and antivax ones.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    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.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 months ago

        Dude. Just set the limit yourself.
        And for anyone with spending problems: Make it as uncomfortable to spend money as possible in digital form like a physical TAN generator for bank transfer or 2FA entry on PayPal.
        Makes you think more about your spending.

  • SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • naut@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      I don't know, but I would like to try, we don't know what we can loose or gain, we only cry when we have issues and we don't have solution or power to make difference, and it is just awareness month, no biggie