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Results: Buying: With What & Where

Published on 04/06/2024
By: jlrake
2202
Living
1.
1.
Where, or in what manner, do you do the majority of your purchasing of goods & services?
In-person/brick & mortar businesses
55%
1200 votes
Internet &,postal mail order
12%
274 votes
It's roughly an even split between the two methods cited above.
25%
549 votes
For whatever reason about which I may leave a comment below, I've little to no need to purchase anything on my own/with currency in my possession.
8%
177 votes
2.
2.
By what means do you prefer to pay for the goods & services you purchase?
Cash/physical currency
17%
375 votes
Paper check
3%
67 votes
Debit/ATM card
26%
578 votes
Credit card
41%
892 votes
Electronic funds transfer not made with ATM/debit card
2%
35 votes
Approximately even division between at least two of the above
6%
139 votes
I've no or little need to engage with the above methods of payment.
1%
28 votes
Ideally, I'd prefer to barter for what I need and want much as possible.
4%
86 votes
3.
3.
If you pay for monetary transactions with anything other than cash--and possibly checks?--what level of concern do you have for any individuals &/or organizations administrating and watching over your purchases to use your information for ends of which you would not approve?
High
13%
281 votes
Moderate
33%
724 votes
Low
23%
511 votes
Undecided/Had not considered the matter until being asked about it here
15%
323 votes
Not Applicable
16%
361 votes
4.
4.
Have you ever patronized a business that did not allow payment in your preferred means of making it (example: last year at a music venue where I was seeing a show, I'd wanted to buy a drink with cash but was only allowed to do so with plastic [and was glad to have my debit card on hand for the occasion])?
Yes
29%
630 votes
Not that I'm recalling...
30%
657 votes
No
24%
536 votes
Not Applicable
17%
377 votes
5.
5.
To what degree are you concerned by the efforts of central banks, such the the U.S. federal reserve,. to fully digitize currency via central bank digital currencies (CBDC's), which can be controlled by the governments issuing them, enabling those governments to reward and punish those in possession of them (it's a bit lengthy, but this interview with Technocracy.news' Patrick Woods gives a thorough rundown of CBDC's, the global push toward their implementation and their dangers [start about 38 seconds into the video to get straight: to the interview]: https://www.worldviewweekend.com/situation-room/video/central-bank-central-bankers-pushing-hard-digital-currency)?
Highly
22%
488 votes
Moderately
20%
436 votes
Little to not at all
19%
418 votes
This is the first I'm being made aware of these efforts, so I'm currently unsure.
23%
515 votes
I've known of these efforts but am still unsure.
16%
343 votes
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