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Crixcyon's avatar

More like digital rubble. Giving the government complete control over your finances is a prescription for death.

TheRussianMystic's avatar

According to a survey conducted this summer, only 3% of Russians say they would like to receive salary in digital roubles. Last year this figure was 7%. People are not stupid.

Charlotte Ruse's avatar

I just can't wait for programmable Fart Coins permitting purchases of

"Ze bugs." 😁

Interesting, how the entire planet is devolving into a 19th Century US neofeudal mining town where salaries were issued in "company coupons" only able to be spent in "company stores." πŸ’°πŸ’°πŸ’°

Privatizing Stalinism emerges as techno/fascist neofeudalism.

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Saskia's avatar

Hey, Riley - funny as ever a read. I do appreciate your style. Sorry to hear about your removal (via your girlfriend) from your village. I do hope you both will fare better in Egypt, or wherever you will eventually land... Greetings from germany

Jesuitic Ziowahhabiz's avatar

The techno-Goolag every head of fucktard taxcattle yearns for. The easy geofencing for drafting your ass for the fake, staged taxcattle-culling "wars" like Ukraine's and for plandemic "vaccines" and "climate change" credit deductions is such a luxurious convenience.

Pill Giigle's avatar

"the client no longer needs to look for a parking machine and stand in line for it, install an app, save a parking ticket, or scan anything on the way out."

First, they force you to have a "smart" phone with you, which is controlled by Google or Apple - there are clean so-called vanilla phones but without active Google account, they don't have access to the app store...

Then, they claim their new system is easier because you don't have to do all that nonsense to pay for parking.

To be fair, I've never downloaded an app for parking (don't have such a phone with me) and I don't remember ever having to wait in line. Just a week ago I parked in a large garage, there were multiple machines and it probably took only a minute to pay.

Peter: of Family Forrest's avatar

Fundamentally, a ''Bank'' is merely a digital ledger in a database that enables credits and debits. Easily created by any community who are wise enough to dismiss corporate ''govern-ment'' by narcissists and psychopaths

Peter: of Family Forrest's avatar

...and of course people would accept and recycle the currency of a ''Bank'' that they owned collectively as a public trust to be administered locally.

Moreover when that currency was generated debt-free into the accounts of members who chose to exchange their goods, services, time, skills, knowledge, offers and needs in projects that produced assets and public services.

Indeed, such communities would become worthy of investment whereby traditional debt-based funds could support the generation of debt-free by hands-on creativity - ''true money-laundering''

Seeds's avatar

This all makes sense Peter.

However, I think the powers that be are into the currency of nonsense, not sense!

They call it "the common good" but it is really about something else.

Do not be discouraged though.

Common sense must prevail.

Or we are all doomed.

Honeybee's avatar

Funny. This grannie has no children, thus, no grandchildren. Still, I strive to be wary never to accede to digitalization. I will use a debit card (an instrument I used in the 1980s); however, the other day, I had to physically struggle with a clerk tallying my purchases who kept insisting that I could "tap" my card. "Tapping" is far more hackable and unsecured. I want as onerous and difficult time paying for anything as possible. No convenience. Added fees? I already avoid them. I've read enough to understand that "convenience=digitalization=CBDCs." I've selected inconvenience.

Isaiah Antares's avatar

Great cartoon. How about one of Susan lying on a pile of digital rubles?

Wait...how can there be a physical pile of something digital?

Catherine H's avatar

What about my baboushka sending me digital rubles? Her granddaughter .. ?

Seeds's avatar

I think your digital rubles come from your dedushka!

Catherine H's avatar

I had to look up β€˜dedushka’ so I’ve learnt a new word today. Thank you!

Seeds's avatar

My guess is they target the baboushkas, because they are more likely to be susceptible to emotional manipulation!

And more likely to favour grandsons maybe.

While dedushkas might tend to favour granddaughters.

Regardless, digital rubles are not ideal gifts.

We should go for cash, or gold or silver, if we can!

Susan Hojdik's avatar

Rotsa Ruck, Charree:)) I’ll take my pay in the gold and silver shiny stuff, thank youπŸ˜‰ No phony denaro for us. Hang in there, Ed.β€οΈπŸ‘πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

RT's avatar

I love your sarcasm.

Jeffrey Strahl's avatar

CREEPY!! Including how the media are managing the impression of widespread acceptance of this atrocity, inn the face of recent surveys indicating the exact opposite.

Margo Jackson's avatar

Ha ha, as a granny I can't wait for my chance to transfer money to my fairly well-off grandson - who hasn't yet bothered to thank me for his birthday present back in April.

Denis's avatar

Donating to the poor would be more appreciated.

Rhiannon's avatar

Thanks, even when writing about something awful you make me smile.

Eduardo GuzmΓ‘n's avatar

You do an excellent job at explaining the many advantages that make advisable the prompt adoption of digital rubles. Additional advantages such as vaccination status verification to be able to access your digital ruble account, or digital ruble account disconnect as soon as you surpass your driving fence limit or exceed your carbon footprint by keeping too many home appliances on for too long, all should be taken into consideration.

As I live in an ally country, Venezuela, after you New Rome Russians have successfully completed the pilot stage, we will suggest our local Central Bank to adopt the digital ruble, so that maybe the digital or paper dollar or USTD, monetary devices of hyperinflation and hunger,

will be displaced by the strategic weight and prestige of the digital ruble.