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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1128063, member: 27832&quot;]Can I just step in here for a minute to address the &quot;implant&quot; shibboleth?</p><p><br /></p><p>Why on Earth would a government take this approach, when they can instead simply outlaw cash entirely? We&#039;re already well on our way down that road.</p><p><br /></p><p>They wouldn&#039;t even have to outlaw it -- just <i>disincentivize</i> it. Until I took up change-searching again, I did almost nothing with cash, using a rewards credit card instead. If you don&#039;t carry a balance, all the overhead is borne by the merchant, and you get a nice little bonus at the end of the year. And it&#039;s so much <i>easier</i> and <i>safer</i> than carrying cash -- I&#039;ve got thousands in my pocket, none of which is at risk of someone grabs my wallet, and checking out with a credit card is actually faster than counting out cash and change.</p><p><br /></p><p>Suppose there <i>is</i> some Vast One World Government Conspiracy to turn us all into tracked and controlled cattle. Why on Earth would They rely on clunky, obvious, invasive, removable-and-transferrable, late-20th-century technology like <i>implants</i>? They can already pick up our fingerprints, our faces, our eyes, the way we walk, and the path we&#039;ve followed past Their omnipresent surveillance cameras. Soon, They&#039;ll be able to smell our body chemistry, if not our DNA, whenever we walk by. Why would They need implants?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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