WHY CASH KEEPS US FREEDominic Frisby
Author and comedian Dominic Frisby writes in defence of notes and change. In an economy propped up by tracked transactions, you’re always at risk from the whims of financial institutions and governments, he argues, where banks are free to confiscate your funds to save their own heads. The price for free speech becomes more severe when governments are able to identify and cut dissenters out of the financial system. He writes that Big Tech companies are within their rights to keep an eye on what you buy and sell, making a profit on any data they retain. Cash, Dominic argues, is a pro-liberty, pro-privacy solution to the growing problem of authoritarian intervention.
Dominic Frisby is a financial writer and comedian. As a stand-up comedian, his speciality is comic songs. You might have heard some of them – they sometimes go viral. His books include: Life After the State: Why we don’t need government (2013), Bitcoin: The future of money? (2014) and Daylight Robbery: How tax shaped our past and will change our future (2018). Dominic also writes one of the UK’s most popular financial Substacks, The Flying Frisby. His films include Adam Smith Father of The Fringe and Four Horsemen.
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