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originally posted by: GoldGoo9
a reply to: Itisnowagain
So If you got 100k in the bank and they say you are only allowed 10k
What happens to the 90k?
we may restrict the amount you can have in your accounts either by applying a limit or by imposing a charge.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: anonentity
Could be considered apples and oranges all the same.
Cyprus's population being 1.207 million and ours amounting to around 67.22 million.
I spend about £300 on shopping for a fortnight, all in the one go, what happens when people cannot afford their messages?
Coz there goes the Supermarket chains and all the supply drivers that facilitate the trade.
The dominions would fall under such conditions here in the UK imho.
originally posted by: anonentity
a reply to: AaarghZombies
So it is not that much of a surprise that they would eventually come after it.
Negative interest rates are theft
originally posted by: 2Faced
I speak to a fair amount of people each week about the current state of affairs, but many of them seem to have difficulty connecting the dots.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: 2Faced
I speak to a fair amount of people each week about the current state of affairs, but many of them seem to have difficulty connecting the dots.
In a lot of cases, most in the case of things being brought up on this forum, there aren't any connections between the dots. They're just dots.
Sometimes a lot of different things happen in response to the same events, but there isn't a master plan behind it. Nobody is orchestrating things. They're happening because systems are interconnected, or because one organization sees something happening somewhere else and decides to make sure that they're read in case whatever hits the fan sprays a little further than expected.
For example, the origin of a lot of the "shortages" that we're experiencing right now are due to supply chain disruption, which has its origins in shipping containers being stranded in the Shanghai docks due to covid restrictions. This effects one thing, which effects another, which sets of some dominoes elsewhere, and before you know it you can't get your favorite breakfast cereal in 2022.
For example, did you know that there is currently a shortage of certain tampon brands because two years ago several large shipments of the raw materials used in making them were redirected to Chinese factories making PPE due to demand because of covid.
It just took this long for the material shortages to filter through the market and for stockpiles to be exhausted elsewhere.
The problem is that half the time when someone "does their own research and "connects the dots" what they end up with is a bunch of misunderstandings coupled together with some iffy coincidences and then forced into a belief using nothing but willpower and blu tack.