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The developed world is increasingly forcing people to use incompetently designed technology. The #digitalTransformation movement is being forced onto people.

Just like we cannot rely on the public sector to solve the climate crisis, we also cannot rely on the public sector to deploy well-designed privacy-respecting inclusive technology. We always need an analog option.

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How paper cheques are critically important to our human right to autonomy. Belgians will lose this right soon. (fedia.io)

submitted 1 month ago by ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io to c/right_to_unplug@sopuli.xyz

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Crossposted from https://fedia.io/m/humanrights@crazypeople.online/t/4433054

Belgium plans to do away with paper cheques. Apparently no one is fighting this. The eagerness to do away with paper cheques can only be attributed to addiction to convenience without regard to the consequences.

Once paper cheques are gone, there will be no way to survive without banks. Even if you walk away from your job and go on social aid, the social aid has no way to reach you without a bank account. Paper cheques are the sole means having personal autonomy from banks.

Some pensioners still receive their pension payment as a paper cheque, which they can cash without having a bank account. Belgium is taking this away.

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[–] peacepath@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago

I have heared about bankless card (basically, you can reload them at tabac/press shops). I am not sure how the service work in France, but there could be one similar in Belgium. Also, I am not sure how you would link that to your salary, social security things and other third parties.

Else you could try to look at how to create a minimal mutual/associative bank. I am sure it is a crazy thing to try and it requires even more than a lot of work, but it would be beautiful to make exist a bank which aim would only be to let people access their money (without profits, just a share of the costs).

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