Why would they need money? And exchange for their upkeep labor to get to live in luxury with their families the rest of the time.

Because not everything could be done this way. There is only so much you can do with this kind of “barter”.

So vitamin C is bad for you now?

Everything is bad for you, it only depends on the dose and conditions.

I agree generally but this isn’t used for small sums. You’re talking hundreds of thousands / millions in highly visible ill gotten gains for it to be deployed.

Ok, but if you need to have hundreds of thousands / millions in highly visible ill gotten gains before you ask “wait, how he is making all this money without working” you have other problems

And I think 10k is a bullshit amount for this new law. People buy cars second hand all the time with cash fully legit.

Every amount you choose is bullshit. Even in Italy that the limit is 5000, paying under the table is not difficult, you just split the payments.

Maybe, but at this point the few oligarchs would be parias in their own home.

And it would be easy to eliminate them.

Do you realize that this way the volume of the business would be a lot smaller, right ? And being rich means nothing is you have not a use for your money.

You make AI and robotics to take care of everything you need, good, now think who pay, what it is needed and who would do the work for keeping the AI and robots in a working status. Hint: not the few common people that at this point have no money for anything else that some food, if any, since you automated everything.

It would be better for stability, the environment, and their view if the bulk of us died out.

If the bulk of us died out, being rich means nothing, and they know it.

And why exactly ?
Once I paid my fair share of taxes, what I do with my money is not your business (nor state’s business).
If I want to withdraw money from the bank every month and keep under the sink until I have enough money to buy a home with cash I am free to do it. It is smart ? Probably not so much but it is not illegal either.

If banking gets paralyzed like in Greece during debt crisis you’ll be fucked.

You’ll be fucked in any case. If the banks are paralyzed you cannot get your money anyway.

I know, but my point still stand: someone is innocent until proven guilty.

Seizing somthing only because “there is no way this scumbag can legally afford all this” is nothing different from jailing someone because “there is no way you have not violated some law”.
I am not required to justify myself (in this case: paying something with cash accepted by the state), it is police’s job to prove that the cash I used is obtained illegally, not mine to prove that it is legal.

I undertand that for 10.000 euros or more it is better to use a bank tranfer to pay, less risks for everyone, but assuming that I am a criminal just because I do it don’t really solve the problem.

Then you don’t understand slavery deeply-enough:

They can outright remove-human-validity-from all lives except their-own, & they’ll still have “business” happening.

True, but a very limited one.
In a situation where you need to continually grow, removing all the human side of business will end with bankrupcy.

Citizens are not required outside of oligarchs…

Citizens are required, oligarchs can prosper only because there is something that produce their money. You remove the citizens, who in a form or another can buy oligarchs services/products, and the oligarchs are left with nothing, their money is useless.
We can discuss that then people will become money (the more slaves you have the better) but to keep slaves have a price, low as you want but it have it, and without a way of producing something you will end with no money and then no slaves.

Here we are talking about business that on one hand are trying to sell something to people and on the other are firing people to replace them with AI agents. We can replace, at the beginning, people who buy AI services with other business who then fires the people they hired to replace them with AI agents and so on.
At some point you will end with all the people fired (not that it could end this way in a pacifically), that cannot buy anything other then some food (if any) and a lot of business that are producing and trying to sell something to… who exactly ? The slaves ? Other business ?

Humankind’s history is waaay worse than you’re understanding.

Maybe, I never had the time to study history as much as I’d liked but I understand that there cannot be oligarchs without a society behind them.

Thankfully the police can now confiscate any item on you that you can’t prove is yours and how you legally got it.

This is what is wrong. I am not the one that should prove that what I do is legal, it is the police that must prove that what I am doing is illegal.

No that’s not stupid. It adds a layer of friction for criminals.

True criminals do not care. Mafia do not write invoices to sell/buy drugs or to pay a killer.

Source: I used to be paid in cash (illegally) and it was a pain in the ass to do anything so now I get paid lawfully and my boss pays taxes

Then the problem was not that your boss was paying you in cash but that he had the possibility to pay you under the table without (basically) any kind of risk.

The limit only make some illegal payments (like under the table payments) only a little more inconvenient, it does not prevent them.

The mar we are talking about is right in the middle of Madrid. Just three kilometers from the Prado and the city centre. It’s located in a busy neighborhood right next to several other bars and cafes. So please stop pretending that people are forced to go into that fascist place because there are no alternatives.

Mine was just an example of a reason (the easiest one basically), I am sorry you did not understand that.

I am not defending anyone, I am just pointing out that there are a number of reasons behind the simple “he is fascist” if people go in a fascist place.
For years I had my lunch break at a place run by a hard core communist, in your logic this make me communist. The reality is that his meals were better than the other places near the office, I never cared about his political views (probably not even evet talk about politics).

They don’t want us: they want only business-to-business contracts: higher profit, less people.

Ok, but the business that buy need someone to sell to. It is maybe not the first or the second or the third but at some point along the chain b2b must become b2c, a business need to sell to someone that is not a business, else there is not reason for the business to buy in the first place.

No, but if you go to a fascist fan café, people will think that you are a fan of fascists.

If the café is run now by a fascist It can be true to some degree but it is a stupid way to judge people, there can be a lot of reasons why someone goes in aside being a fascist, for example it could be the only one near enough, not all places have tons of café nearby.

And there is a difference between historical monuments and businesses catering to fascists

True, but what we call historical ? Something from the 1920’s ? Older ? If I enter a palace built by the fascist regime in the 1920 it make me a fascist, even if now it is used for something else ?

It always amuse me how people think that just because someone go to a certain place then he should be a supporter of whatever the place represented in the past (for the present I might somewhat agree but still seems stupid most of the time).

Following your reasoning, we should demolish basically everything in Europe, almost everything could be linked to some not so nice past period or event.

Speed cameras won’t be able to distinguish EVs and ICE so you’ll be going to court a lot to get tickets dismissed.

Wrong. They read the car registration plate and with this you know if the car is an EV, a ICE car or an hybrid since these informations are asked when you ask for it.

Regarding the fuel and carbon stuff, we are all in this crisis that means we need to invent a sustainable way of living. Like travelers on a sinking boat, we should all try hard to keep it afloat.

Which is not banning private jets and slowing down ICE cars. The global contribution to polllution of cars is about 70%, the one of the aviation trnasportation is 2% (there are about 100.000 fly a day) and I’d say that in this 2% the private jets are a really small number of the total, so banning private jets maybe give you a 0.05%, not worth the trouble (even if everything helps of course).

Lowering the speed of ICE cars don’t really help, I am not that sure that more time on the road at a lower speed produce less pollution. Safety is another question but you have not it by lowering only the ICE cars (it helps of course)

A better solution would be to mandate working from home for everyone who can, far less car on the roads.

They are bigger in dimension (SUV and whatever else) but the engine displacement did not got bigger, it is basically the same it was 20 or more years ago, with lower consumption I may add.

Are they though? Reform has already split into reform and restore, so they aren’t as united as you think.

Maybe, but as far as I see they seems to run as a single entity or in any case the split seems to be irrelevant.

About labour, are they really that bad or do people have unrealistic expectations? I don’t know tbh.

It is probably a mix of the two reasons, as always, adding irrealistic campaign promises to the mix.