Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands

Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @04:00PM (#37241343)

> Since nobody carries cash, nobody thinks that other people are carrying cash, so it doesn't make you a target.

Thugs will target older people who are more likely to carry cash, they do some stereotyping other of people who are still worth mugging.

Also, if they notice the wallet bulge in your back pocket, you’ve become a target.

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Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands by tekknik on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:07PM (#37243953)

Well this works well until it doesn’t. My elderly father doesn’t carry cash, only card, but yet it would look like he has a large wad of cash in his front pocket. It is in fact a legally concealed handgun however.

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Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands by seanmcdirmid on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:51AM (#37248171)

False positives don’t negate the stereotype.

And anything that doesn’t look like a wallet probably won’t trigger a response. You would be safer to just wad up money and shove it in your pocket than to carry it around in a wallet.

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