Coin shortage

Banks and law and big business want everybody to rely on a card.

That way your transactions are all logged on several different computer systems and judgement made on everything from what you buy in your groceries and how that determines the cost of your personal healthcare, to how long you can make your monthly income last and what % interest you personally should pay for any loan or mortgage secured by it.

And this is just the beginning.
Sooner or later this card will likely evolve to include a sample of your DNA; all your alcohol or tobacco consumption. The 'likelihood ' of you being a potential alcoholic or obese person. And from that point you will be limited in your scope for jobs; areas you can live in; limited travel via passport; cheap ineffective drugs to treat your problems as opposed to somebody earning far more and getting priority treatment with effective drugs as a result !

The current covid stuff is enabling businesses to initiate this stuff.
For weeks here the big supermarkets and stores have refused to handle cash claiming some nonsense about Covid-19 being present on cash yet shockingly not so on any debit/credit card !

This stuff is coming kids !
Unless folk start telling them loud and clear that it's unacceptable.

Im not worried. I pay with my vaccine microchips.

there is no "shortage", it's just a bullshit scheme cooked up alongside much of the covid nonsense to try and get everyone hooked on credit/digital currency. According to the Federal Reserve, there are 47.7 billion coins in circulation.

Sure, plastic sounds better on paper, but credit card fraud is rampant; compounded by the fact that the prevention/penalty for digital fraud/cyber crimes is horrendously incompetent (and a royal pain in the ass to deal with and correct for the victim of it)

And I've had more problems/been frauded more with these so called "smart cards" than I ever have with a standard magnetic "swipe" card.

Coinage is legal tender, if a business refuses it, that's their problem not mine; I'll take my business elsewhere.

No more mates rates..
I guess drug dealers will need a swipe machine and a crafty tax accountant from now on

They say that so they can make people cards. I work is a store I work in cash office we have lot of money and coins. They put signs on self checkouts cards only. Because people complain to home office because we been using cash and coins. This virus making people go nuts

This is bullshit. Seriously I went and bought a coffee and didn’t have exact change so they kept my 13 cents!
Where the hell did all these coins suddenly disappear to?

yes it is going down here too. sometimes mcdonalds has money, sometimes not.

Yeah... the Man is out to stick it to the panhandlers now. Nobody safe!

You want my business you take my cash,simple

China is basically cashless.

Cashless society

I bought several rolls of quarters in February just because I was at the bank and had the opportunity. I’m glad I did, because a neighbor told me about the shortage when she was scrambling for quarters for the laundry.