I think the EU has been pretty clear about “no cherry-picking”.

My bad, I should have said “ordenary people”.

I had the idea years ago that we should ban notes outright, it would have to be coins and the highest denomination would be €50. You can still buy stuff that you’d need cash for, but it would make the black/shadow-economy more cumbersome. Or you’d get really strong criminals. 🙃

Get better cops? I might not trust every cop out there, but I trust that the system will hold them to the standard that we require from them. So far it seems to work here in the Nordics.

Sure it does. It just doesn’t fix everything.

Yeah, that was my point? The laws apply, but you will never have to think about them.

All laws apply to everyone, but not everyone is subjected to them. If you don’t have a drivers licence you’re not subject to laws related to driving a car.

It doesn’t. You can still buy a house, or a car, just not with cash.

People won’t have to. Criminals though…

Not at all, and no need to keep receipts on you. The cops need to get approval from an on-call prosecutor (kind-of) and have probable cause. They’re not going to stop a random citizen about their wedding ring, and even if they did the prosecutor wouldn’t allow them to take it. This targets known criminals without any income flaunting expensive shit. Now their shit gets taken away, and I’m good with it.

They obviously go through the legal system so it’s not confiscated forever if you can show that it’s actually yours. This is a law designed to remove expensive items from gansters. If you’re not doing shady shit you’ll never have anything taken from you by the police.

Criminals use it to launder money. And it’s not only €10k, it’s €10k and above. So a 20 year old with no job or income comes into a dealership, buys an Audi RS3 for €80k in cash and we’re all supposed to pretend that’s fine?

If you have over €10k in cash and want to spend it, sure, go right ahead, but you’ll need to prove where you got it from. Banks have a KYC requirements, put the money there and arrange for a bank transfer. It’s not like cash is banned.

I’m OK with this law. Stops a 20-something from going into a shop with a bag of cash and walking out with a rolex or a luxury car. Plenty of drug dealers and other gangsters do this, and the police is annoyed.

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

Apparenly DDOSing a blog iirc. You’re not allowed to use it over at the Europe community because of it.

Good. Making it easier to get capital is one of the most important things when it comes to fostering innovation.

Agreed, this has been an issue for far too long. It’s better in the EU than in most other regions, but it’s still too damn high.

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

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

Most likely “They did Brexit wrong!”. The Brexit that Farage would have delivered, given the chance, would have unicorns crapping out rainbows all over Britain making everything magically better.

Well, there’s always someone who’ll have access to your data, that’s just how life works, so do you want a say on how that’s used, how much is shared and with whom? Or do you want to hand it over to the US. To me that’s an easy choice.

They did though… https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g74npdwnyo