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How paper cheques are critically important to our human right to autonomy. Belgians will lose this right soon. (fedia.io)
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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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[–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

I was able to reach the site on the 3rd attempt. Deepl rejects the 71-page PDF with:

β€œThis file exceeds your plan’s character limit. Try a shorter file or remove it.”

It has 122726 characters, which is about 26 times the deepl quota. If you have an English version I would be interested. But I don’t think you can post PDFs in a thread.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    If you're really interest in reading the document, you'll find a way. You made clear you are technically capable.

    I'd advise on focusing your attention on part one of the document, from page seven to page thirteen.

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