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A basically stands for alpha now so probably lol

So this is the "dense urban public housing" we get under capitalism 😐

Hannibal, is that you?

sharing a house with other people in an individualist society that until not too long ago, when it was still economically feasible, pushed everybody to get their own house as soon as they can is abject poverty

The admins are Marxists (you probably know, libs from other instances cry about "tankie redfash admins censoring my poor, totally respectable opinions" all the time) The userbase itself is a mix of everything, It was one of the only 2 populated instances a few months ago after all. Anyhow a big chunk of the userbase (I'd say the majority) is left-wing with some of them (me included) being Marxists, or as the average 'worlder calls them: "evil redfash tankies"

Tldr: the instance doesn't censor/shun Marxist and generally left-wing opinions, and I'd say at least half of the userbase is some flavor of left-wing.

Half the comments be like:

China has fast internet

But at what cost?

Lemmy.world is reddit with another interface. All the people there are redditbrained to the core, no wonders that instance was born last July when lemmy was invaded by lib redditors. Lemmy.world mods are (sometimes really) reddit mods. (before july, the biggest instance was lemmy.ml that IMO is way better)

Lemmygrad.com leads to some weird zionist site btw, some domain squatter bought it some time ago. lemmygrad.ml

So is there a legitimate reason to want to be able to use large amounts of cash

Before answering this question we should define "a large amount" as it stands today, I, a private citizen with no criminal record, who hasn't ever been investigated by fiscal authorities in my life, can't spend more than €2000 in cash or else I'll face a huge fine and I'll be automatically considered a "money launderer" and a "financial criminal"

Now, to answer your question: personal data is digital gold, it's only natural people don't want their banks to track every thing they buy, your data won't just be sold to the highest bidder. It will be sold and shared to the "1683 partners" you see on the cookie banners. Not wanting your financial and spending data to be sold and shared with thousands of (sometimes really malicious) entities. Not wanting the prostitution of your data, and, to the maximum possible extent not participating in this coercitive datamining system (you don't really have a choice, every bank does this to some often cryptically disclosed if disclosed extent) is the legitimate reason I believe cash is a payment method that, when possible, should be used.

To clarify my position: I don't oppose limitations on cash transactions necessarily because I want to buy something like a car with cash, buying a car still requires extensive paperwork and as such most privacy benefits from paying cash vanish instantly. I oppose the marginalization of cash because it's leading to a bankized societiy, we are seeing it with our very eyes.

At least where I live you:

can't get your paycheck in cash

can't withdraw more than an undisclosed amount, else you're suspicious and may be investigated, without your knowledge (oh, and the burden of proof is on you!)

Can't receive many welfare benefits without a bank account

A bank account is nothing short of mandatory, yet there's not national bank you can open an account in. School is mandatory, public schools exist.

Private banks offer many benefits such as:

Investing in fossil fuel companies.

Not ensuring a single cent of the money they should keep safe, a national fund ensures up to €100k,but if it was for the banks id let you guess.

Offering subpar and overpriced investment products with ludicrous fees to unsuspecting and financially illiterate but often hard-working people, eroding their life savings.

Seeing the above points, I tend to look with distrust at laws, regulations etc that aim at pushing people into banks. People should be able to live their entire life without opening a bank account if they want, and without being judged as criminals.

It's not like this is impossible, there are places with way less financial crime than my country, than the USA or other countries who restrict cash who don't marginalize cash as much, countries such as Japan or Germany.

but this is a privacy basically nobody chose to have anyway

If there wasn't a societal unspoken obligation to have a bank account, many people would have ditched theirs a long time ago, me very much included, people are just coerced into accepting it. Not saying we should live like financial hermits, just that we should stop accepting the status quo, and that many people only use their bank account to receive their salary and withdraw it later, maybe put something away if they can afford it. That shouldn't require your data to be mined.

Milan, totally unrelated fact! The average rent in Milan has gone up ~15% the last year, and this is far from the first year this happens. I just checked and a 34sqm sardine box (360sqft for our burger comrades) runs €800 a month (and that's cheap, the average rent for a 80sqmt apartment is about 1100-1500€ in a city where the average salary is barely 2k (maany, especially young ppl, earn less)

I've heard (and not personally confirmed, tho it's very probable) that the average rent in Helsinki is very close to the average rent in Milan, except in Finland the average salary is at least €1000 above.

The rental market in Milan is a national stereotype and meme at this point, if you're young you either share a shoebox with 10 strangers or you live here:

All photos from different zones, also sometimes the cops like to use "very persuasive ways" to evict the people who live here.

Milan is also considered a "good city" (read: good city if you're a 🐷 or you have a well-paying career)

Edit: also I know the UᛋᛋA has some slums in the big cities, but Idk if they are as big as districts or something like that

Bonus photo from Rome

It's 100% because they want it to be traceable. I'm not sure, but I think I'm OK with that.

Yes criminals use cash because it's private, but criminals also use:

• E2E encryption
• VPNs
• Private operating systems (Linux, Android ROMs)

Criminals use private technology because they need to hide from the police. That does not mean we need to ban or heavily restrict (current state of cash in parts of the world, such as the USA or the EU) private options and private technologies just because "criminals use them" if you accept a ban on privacy and an increase in surveillance in order to counter criminality, you will receive an omnipotent government and corporations spying on you with a mandate.

The criminals will just go even more underground. They always adapt, they always had and always will.

We must not sacrify privacy in exchange for "safety"

They should learn basic economics smh my head