Oliver Tambo, born on this day in 1917, was a South African anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary who served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967 to 1991.
In 1943, Tambo, along with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, founded the ANC Youth League, with Tambo becoming its first National Secretary and a member of the National Executive in 1948. The Youth League proposed a change in the tactics of the anti-apartheid movement, advocating boycotts, civil disobedience, strikes, and non-collaboration.
In 1960, Tambo fled South Africa due to political persecution, living in exile in north London for thirty years. From London, he supported and helped organize the ANC in the fight against apartheid from a distance. On December 13th, 1990, Tambo returned to South Africa and was elected National Chairperson of the ANC.
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Sometimes I wonder if transitioning to a cashless society is just another way for the ruling class to cull the homeless.
it allows advertisers to profile everyone more easily
I think it's more there are multiple rentiers in a cashless society. Pretty sure every credit card transaction has two additional entities getting a cut (since the machines aren't always by the CC company), and debit card ones have up to three additional now (bank, visa/mastercard, again potentially whoever makes the machine).
Theoretically, digital cash won't have that problem. Although there will be the major problem of surveillance and privacy.
If my cashless society isn't moneyless and managed by Gosplan, I don't want it!
Always a a safe bet to assume it's ultimately about starving the homeless
It isn't really cashless. It isnjudt that cash is privatized. Instead of thr government minting it it is now made in the form of gift cards, and digital tender