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Thanks for taking the initiative on these critical issues. Of most concern to me is the cashless society. Apart from impacting the homeless, elderly, children, markets, etc., the increased vulnerability to outages (power, internet) poses crippling effects. Not to mention the potential for...

Provides a more equal division of opportunity to members

I do not want a cashless society No pocket money. No earning money for small jobs. (Which teach kids the value of money and the joy of spending it on something you’ve saved for) No markets. No garage sales. No lions club sausage sizzles. No cash charity donations, like CFA at XMAS. What happens...

I’m also puzzled as to how we were better off at an interest rate 3 times what it is now and an average house value to wages rate of just under half what it is today. Seems we were still paying more pro rata.

I was born in 1960. I faced finding my first full-time job during the 1980s recession. My now ex and I paid the 18% interest rates and did so by setting aside my wage to pay the mortgage. As his wage was below average, there were only the occasional luxuries. He worked a second job to pay for an...