Re:25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society
by the8472 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @01:32PM
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Not being a resident means you are the resident of a different country, so the assumption is that you have a bank account there. And being illegal or a suspected terror financer would already put you in an underclass anyway.
Re:25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society
by nothrabannosir on Saturday March 16, 2019 @02:29PM
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The problem is rarely the intention of a law, rather than the imperfections of its application.
Governments are quite imperfect, and humans are a varied bunch. There are exceptions to everything , and exceptions to that. The Windrush generation is just a recent example that comes to mind: luckily, they were numerous enough to get their story heard. But people fall through such cracks every single day. Sometimes an imperfection in the law, sometimes an “overzealous” public servant.
Re:25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society
by mnbvkhgvmj on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:54PM
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Aren't Windrush citizens still being deported? Have any of the deportees been allowed to return yet?
Re:25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society
by theonemind on Saturday March 16, 2019 @01:53PM
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The assumption that everyone has a country causes problems for people who actually don't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness
This is little comfort if you're not a legal EU resident, or if they believe you're laundering money or financing terror groups (whether you actually are or not).
As long as there are any caveats to "cannot refuse bank accounts to all people" then switching to a cashless society would create an underclass of people who are just not allowed to have money.