Visa’s ‘War on cash’ and microchips in employees

The credit card company VISA declared war on cash:

July 25, 2017

PITTSBURGH – Cash is still king, but Visa Inc. is trying mightily to dethrone it.

The electronic payments giant unveiled a campaign this month aimed at enticing small restaurant owners to stop accepting cash.

The company is dangling $10,000 each for up to 50 restaurants or food vendors nationwide willing to go cashless. The money is to be used to upgrade merchants’ point-of-sale equipment to accept a variety of electronic payment methods, including chip-enabled credit and debit cards and contactless technology such as Apple Pay using customers’ cell phones. Owners who don’t need the upgrades or don’t use all the money can spend the extra dough on marketing.

Visa is declaring war on cash, spokesman Andy Gerlt said.

It’s not hard to understand why.

The credit card company makes money on fees collected from merchants every time customers use their plastic. But those fees – which on credit cards average about 2 percent of the transaction amount – are precisely why retailers would prefer that customers use cash. http://www.saukvalley.com/2017/07/25/visa-declares-was-on-cash-but-are-customers-ready-to-go-cashless/adrcnfk/

“We’re declaring a war on cash,” Andy Gerlt, a spokesman for Visa, said in the announcement Wednesday.

“We hope to offer a similar challenge to those merchants who are interested in other countries, including the U.K.,” a spokesperson told CNBC in a separate email Friday.

“At this time, we do not have a firm plan on when such an initiative would be available in the U.K.” 07/14/17 http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/14/visa-business-incentive-us-uk-war-on-cash.html

But it is more than VISA:

Banks Are Scheming To Dominate A Future Cashless Society …

This ongoing push for a cashless society in Europe, Asia, and the Americas is about much more than just phasing out paper money — it’s about central planners solidifying control over the public’s wealth. This ongoing merger of corporate and government interests is the definition of crony capitalism. …

More than 30% of all payments in the U.S. are still conducted in cash, but financial intermediaries that charge processing fees are joining with the State and central banks to ensure the public has no room to innovate. …

The efforts by governments and the financial industry to eliminate cash are only going to intensify. 07/24/17 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-24/banks-are-scheming-dominate-future-cashless-society

An electronic cashless society is one that is monitored and controllable. Various ones want more governmental control and steps towards cashlessness will give more control to governments.

We are seeing the move towards cashlessness around the world.

A couple of months ago, my wife Joyce took a picture of signs in two shops in Stockholm, Sweden:

The vision of a cashless society, from a biblical perspective, resembles something that those in Sweden will not really want:

Beast of the Sea (Revelation 13:1)

Notice some scriptures:

1 And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. 2 And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. (Revelation 13:1-2, ESV)

16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave,^e to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, 17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18 This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666. (Revelation 13:16-18, ESV)

A cashless society is one where buying and selling can be controlled. This is not something that was possible when Jesus had the Apostle John pen the above. But it is possible now.

At the beginning of this post there is a VISA card with a microchip in a card reader. But are you aware that at least one company wants its employees to have microchips implanted in them? Notice the following:

July 25, 2017

A Wisconsin company claims it will be the first in the country to implant microchips in most of its employees.

Three Square Market plans to implant chips in the hands of volunteers among its workforce. The technology replaces identification cards used to open doors and operate office equipment.

CBS News correspondent Jamie Yuccas reports the company, which is based in River Falls, has 80 employees. Privacy concerns have been raised by the plans.

Three Square Market will likely use the technology the most in the break room. To pay for a candy bar or a bag of pretzels, all an employee would have to do is flick their wrist.

By next week, over 50 employees will have bionic hands, with a credit card chip implanted near their wrist.

“Basically it’s a serial number that is assigned to your credit card,” owner Todd Westby said.

The company is offering the chips, which cost about $300 a piece, to its employees for free. Westby, his wife and two children will also be getting microchipped. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/three-square-market-wisconsin-implant-microchips-employees/

Employees with implanted microchips can buy and sell. They can also be monitored at all times. Three Square Market plans to implant chips beginning on August 1, 2017.

This is not good.

The technology for the Beast of Revelation to control buying and selling is getting in place and is getting more acceptance. We are getting closer to the time of the end.

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