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.

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    1 year 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.

  • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year 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.mlOP
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      1 year 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

          • Devi@kbin.social
            0·
            1 year ago

            There’s a vegan month cause people want to raise awareness of veganism/animal welfare. They want to promote people to make that change.

            What awareness is there having your pockets heavy with change?

              • Devi@kbin.social
                0·
                1 year ago

                I disagree strongly with your view on that.

                Still not sure why you think cash needs a month?

                • naut@lemmy.mlOP
                  0·
                  1 year ago

                  Because it is disappearing and money is only what is left when you trade your life time. 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.

              • Deceptichum@kbin.social
                0·
                1 year ago

                Sounds like you need to go back to school.

                We have cultures that have been living on vegan diets for thousands of years and they still exist. Obviously not dying from lack of nutritional needs or being weaker than neighbouring groups.

                If you want to truly be in line with nature we evolved, you’d hop off line and go live in plains of North-East Africa. You don’t, you just want to repeat right-wing talking points and other insanities detached from reality.

                • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  >We have cultures that have been living on vegan diets for thousands of years and they still exist.

                  no. we don’t. why would you lie about this?