Cashless society

The best thing about this site is getting a glimpse of how different the world is to different posters.
I love my simple life, reading the last few pages makes me appreciate it even more :-)
 
BlueTG said:
What? Like they already don’t know what they want to know through your phone, passport, driving licence, internet browsers and so on. Is them knowing you paid £4.50 for a Tesco meal deal the real deal breaker here?

Genuinely intrigued.
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But who are THEY ? I hear this said a lot.
 
Bill Walker said:
Can't decide if your serious..
Tradies here live in huge homes and mostly drive massive new 80k Pick up trucks and have boats and 2nd cars like Porsches. I know a few from the footie club, one lad who's 26 just bought a house for a million bucks. Big mortgage but he put 200k cash of his own into it.

Most tradies in the building industry earn between 100 to 250k a year and claim for everything against tax. I often say to my wife, I wish I'd been a plumber or sparkie etc...Seriously if you have a construction trade come to Australia !

A new report has revealed Melbourne tradies are pocketing a whopping average hourly wage of $124, making them the seventh highest paid construction workers in the entire world. This means the average Melbourne construction worker would make $243,000 a year if they worked a regular 38 hour week.
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Tradies in aus are very different to here. They earn a small fortune as you said. Not here though so cant compare
 
Bill Walker said:
True or false ? :)

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Ill try n dig the report i read out but the % of online fraud is humongous now and is one of the biggest and most time consuming crimes today.

I deal in cash and the instant accusation from people like you is that i rob the lot and pay no tax ….
Nigh on impossible. Most things i buy, all of my overheads, its all on line . Plus traders like me spend huge amounts of tax on buying materials etc
So it has to be banked

Is it the biggest crime in the world to pocket £30 cash on a friday and go buy a curry as a treat? Money is still in the system and im paying tax on the curry, the curry house pays tax on the ingredients he buys, on the heating and lighting and rent.
 
tony coleman said:
But who are THEY ? I hear this said a lot.
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‘They’ are social media companies selling our data to political parties.

Meta, who run Facebook, Instagram and now Threads, take all of this information about us and sell it:

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ctidcarl said:
Worst thing that happened was contact payments in pubs.

When I used to hand over a £20 note, I knew the value of that.......now all this tap tap tap malarkey, it's too easy to spend money
Also, in a pub, when they say "5.60" or whatever, how many of us actually check the amount on the card thing??

Oh yeah - and with ATM's disappearing from the high street, what also gets on my tits are these cash machines in corner shops etc that charge me £2.75 (or whatever) to draw some money out
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It's a good point about pubs. I mentioned the tram ripping me off but at least I got my money back. You can't ring the Dog and Duck 4 days later and say you've been overcharged.
 
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