Can Albania really become a cashless economy? – DW – 09/01/2025
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Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama recently announced an ambitious plan: He wants to make Albania the world's first cashless society before the decade is out.
  • Sem@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    1 month ago

    And what about privacy? Do people still have a right for anonymous payments, or if one needs to buy, for example, big dildo in a sex shop, both bank’s manager and the government should know about it? And besides jokes, do they really want to build a system with a full control of financial operations of citizens? Sounds like a step to the neo-GULAG for me (GULAG is a name of the system of opression camps that exiated in the former USSR). Especially in Albania, that is still quite far away from the top of democracy and freedom ratings.

    • Tryenjer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      It is the Germans’ luck that they do not have adequate infrastructure. A cashless future is a dystopia.