Anyone who relies on digital means of payment can lose everything

Oh, how I love it when people despair when their card and cell phone payments don't work. "What should I do now?" “How am I supposed to pay now?” What a pleasure it was to be able to watch such idiots and then, with a malicious look, put a 50 bill for my purchase on the cashier's table in front of them. In time lapse you can watch how the technology makes people stupid, as if that hadn't already been the case enough during the Corona theater. Is this the much-quoted Long Covid?

How much the increasingly lazy society relies on technology is just shocking. Meanwhile, consumer providers do not even realize that they are indirectly committing a criminal offense because, according to the constitution, cash as a state-sovereign document must be accepted as a means of payment for all payment transactions! In the event of a lawsuit, the plaintiff wins. Apart from that, the population has the illusion that they have complete authority over their accounts. In fact, the bank has the authority over your account, not you. With cash in my pocket, I alone decide what I buy and where and no one, not even the authorities, can trace it. Accounts, on the other hand, can be blocked as soon as you become indebted to the state or become “unpopular”, such as not complying with your vaccination requirement. Then you don't buy anything at all.

If I hack into your Google Pay or Twint account, I determine how much of your money goes where. Then I'll go and enjoy a few nice days in the Maldives with your money. I no longer hope that people will think a little more about things by appealing to common sense; I now only hope that they will be wise through harm. At that point at the latest, people realize that they are placing their naive behavior and trust in something that they can neither control nor authorize, but are putting their entire everyday payment transactions in its hands. In China, people now pay with their palm. And here, too, there are plenty of rotten idiots who would welcome that because it's even more convenient than pulling out your cell phone...

One day, and this is as certain as the amen in church, one day (not too far away) there will be a huge crash, a fallout, a nationwide or even Europe-wide blocking of all electronic transmissions. Payment terminals are already failing regularly and people are already at a loss because they can't buy anything and still have to withdraw cash with a grim expression. Cybercrime is more advanced than ever before and modern conflicts are no longer conducted in primitive and outdated ways, as is the case in Ukraine. Paralyzing an entire country means taking over its electronic transmissions and thus affecting the financial and economic sectors. Postfinance's operating system was hacked once in 2014 and all accounts were frozen for a few hours. But people have already forgotten that...

Only the deluded and mostly poorly educated laugh at this prediction, but they are the first to cry and moan when their oh-so-trustworthy technology fails. And while they no longer know how to get their money because electronic payment transactions are temporarily stopped, I open my locker or my safe and happily leave with my pockets full of money...