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At least four elderly men have now informed me, while I was serving them at work, that starting January First of next year paper money will be abolished. It seems the government is running out of paper and green ink, and therefore everyone will receive a plastic card with their money on it. There will be no banks anymore (except for safe deposit boxes), no ATMs, no anything except these little plastic cards.
What the hell is a retail drone supposed to say to that? I really can't make myself feign belief. The closest I've managed is to remark that, even if tellers are abolished, they'd still need lots of people to manage all those accounts. The old man I said that to just shook his head and said, no, everything will be handled by computers, which in his world are magical machines that do everything unaided. Saying nothing isn't an option either, because it leaves an awkward silence while the old men look at you expectantly. It's really hard to change the subject when they're that worked up about it, and as for informing them that what they're talking about would be unfeasible for about eight hundred reasons...well, they might get offended at that. What would you do in that situation? Beyond "get a better job." I'm working on that, but my best prospect so far is in banking and they probably get swarms of these crackpots informing them that their profession is doomed.
Also, where the deuce do these stories come from? I'm assuming a mass-forwarded e-mail is involved somewhere along the line, natch. And my best guess is that it has its root in the plastic-sheet money currently in use by several countries--including Chile, Vietnam and IIRC Canada--in lieu of paper bills. But is this coming from the crazy gold-standard community, or the crazy chemtrail community, or somewhere else? And is there some way to make them shut the hell up?
At least four elderly men have now informed me, while I was serving them at work, that starting January First of next year paper money will be abolished. It seems the government is running out of paper and green ink, and therefore everyone will receive a plastic card with their money on it. There will be no banks anymore (except for safe deposit boxes), no ATMs, no anything except these little plastic cards.
What the hell is a retail drone supposed to say to that? I really can't make myself feign belief. The closest I've managed is to remark that, even if tellers are abolished, they'd still need lots of people to manage all those accounts. The old man I said that to just shook his head and said, no, everything will be handled by computers, which in his world are magical machines that do everything unaided. Saying nothing isn't an option either, because it leaves an awkward silence while the old men look at you expectantly. It's really hard to change the subject when they're that worked up about it, and as for informing them that what they're talking about would be unfeasible for about eight hundred reasons...well, they might get offended at that. What would you do in that situation? Beyond "get a better job." I'm working on that, but my best prospect so far is in banking and they probably get swarms of these crackpots informing them that their profession is doomed.
Also, where the deuce do these stories come from? I'm assuming a mass-forwarded e-mail is involved somewhere along the line, natch. And my best guess is that it has its root in the plastic-sheet money currently in use by several countries--including Chile, Vietnam and IIRC Canada--in lieu of paper bills. But is this coming from the crazy gold-standard community, or the crazy chemtrail community, or somewhere else? And is there some way to make them shut the hell up?
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We're talking the raw milk folks, etc.
I remember it fondly
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