Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
by macinjosh on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:54AM
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Why does the NL want to kick down at the farmers so badly? Don't they know where real food comes from?
Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
by ElectricalUnion on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:08AM
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Is the only way to buy "real food", to buy it in chunks of 3000+ EUR paper money?
That sounds pretty expensive and a lot of "real food" for the average person.
And if it is a business transaction sounds like a suspicious business transaction.
Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
by macinjosh on Friday August 25, 2023 @07:35PM
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Wow megabrain. A farmer could easily sell a truck of produce for well more than 3k
Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
by piuantiderp on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:14AM
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Only way to reduce the population. Restrict the food supply
Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
by ticviking on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:02AM
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People who can independently produce food have a form of real power that is very hard to resist.
The measures used to keep various peasant and serf classes under control were so extreme in history because if they became able to exercise that power the social order was overturned.
Where (in NL) do you find farmers who routinely need to accept >3k in cash and are (somehow?) unable to accept electronic payments? Pretty much everyone everywhere can accept at least one form of electronic payments. That's a legal requirement for any business in Belgium, and I can't imagine the Dutch being that far behind on that ...
Even if you can't take card or contactless payments or apps, you can do instant bank transfers with most banks within the EU ("Instant Payments"), either free of charge or pretty cheap. There's no excuse for being unable to accept non-cash money. There are, however, plenty of reasons to be unwilling, but that's another story.