@thenewoil Thanks for surfacing this, The New Oil. One step that's usually the fastest win on a household budget: tighten daily spending and transfer limits on your main checking account and turn on per-transaction push alerts, then review one statement a week for anything that doesn't look like you. Small limits mean a stray charge has less room to run, and a weekly review is the habit that catches the rest.

@thenewoil Stop using AI.

@thenewoil enshrining the right to cash is such a powerful move for financial privacy and freedom.

@ProPublica@newsie.social Having a consumer financial protection bureau doesn't actually change that the financial system is basically legalized counterfeiting and usury. When the fed prints money, or the banks create IOUs out of thin air when you deposit your paycheck, it is essential stealing from the poor who hold mostly cash and giving to the rich who mostly hold assets. This is why Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk are multi-billionaires on paper, but they only have a few hundred million in cash that they could spend right now. This is true for almost every billionaire. I cannot buy groceries with company stock and nether can they without converting it into cash by selling it, at which point the market value of said asset would go down significantly because of the increase in supply. Cash is very similar, when the government prints money or borrows money or taxes money, you are getting robbed one way or another. The rich don't pay taxes, you do when you buy goods and services, which is why I think the rich are too highly taxed, they don't pay their taxes, I do when I buy the goods and services I need.

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I just moved to a new phone and wasn't a stranger, but it's like starting over as my Mastodon account didn't transfer.

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Absolutely worthless shills that need to be booted from their position. NY we have to get rid of our garbage.

@ProPublica@newsie.social That's just so they can claim to be doing something. They don't actually give a damn about their constituents ... except for their campaign donations and slush.

@ProPublica@newsie.social there lives need to be ruined. Hack all of their financial accounts. Destroy their credit. Sell their homes.

@ProPublica@newsie.social Rig the system where people needing help can never get it. These people hate the American working class. They are trying to get rid of us.

@ProPublica@newsie.social put everything on the same boat, then sink the boat. Perfect!

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republicans are assholes

@ProPublica@newsie.social Uh, you guys do know that shunting citizen complaints down an officially-named chute specifically designed to lead nowhere & do nothing is a well-known, deliberate fascist tactic, right...?