The choice was between a very selective sheep herder and a very nonselective sheep eater. Not wanting to watch some of the sheep get all the good stuff, they decided on the sheep eater. While being exceptionally cruel to them, this one is also being exceptionally cruel towards the sheep favoured by the herder, so in their perspective, not much was lost.

I mean, it’s got to do with the military industrial complex, so I can’t really say he’s wrong.

Stool for the stool

That would be awesome, but I would be severely underdressed.

I would be anyway.

I think the reason for this implementation is more the theft prevention. This sounds very mich like certificates to me

I’m with you on that.

For the individual saving is something very good. For the economy, however, a money hoarder is dead weight. It’s why inflation won’t ever completely go away, because it discourages hoarding (investing/bringing it to the bank can counteract this, that’s why I didn’t call it saving the second and third time)

It really depends who the issuer of the certificates (wallets) is. The funds get automatically transferred and won’t be lost, it’s “just” a privacy problem (plus the issuer will probably be able to interfere).

So the idea isn’t that dystopian, but it very much depends on the implementation.

I think the idea was that you can’t hoard anything, and stealing or reusing is harder. But it does make the central management way more powerful than it should be. But it’s normal bank standard.

What do you mean with “dystopian statist money”?

Yeah, I think so too. It should replace bank transactions completely.

GNU Taler to the rescue!

The netherlands are already looking into it: https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-taler/

The project could be used via paper trail, as far as I understand it.

*all of these

YOU JUST MADE AN ENEMY FOR LIFE

I think not, I like the anime version

If anyone is interested, here is the original (I think):

Why don’t you use emacs? You can replace Linux with it and use it to start vim!

Remote for the vinyl player, obviously

Another level: The id would be the part ordering more and more expensive drinks, so it’s preferred by barkeepers.

Cool to know, I really didn’t before. Nice catch!

Honestly yes, they do

So you argue on the internet about comics instead of working? Are you bragging? I am jealous.