The Cashless Curse: If the Power Goes Out, So Does Your Life, By Brian Simpson
Imagine this: the lights flicker, your phone's dead, and the internet's down. You're hungry, your kids are crying, and you can't buy a loaf of bread because your digital wallet is worthless. This isn't dystopian fiction, it's the reality of a cashless society, and it's already happening. Sweden, the poster child for going cashless, just slammed the brakes. The Riksbank, once predicting a cash-free utopia by 2025, now admits cash is essential after power outages in Portugal, Spain, and France left millions stranded, unable to pay for food or medicine. Governor Erik Thedéen told Yahoo Finance Australia on May 23, 2025: "People should always be able to pay for food, healthcare, and medicines both digitally and with cash." Why? Because when the grid fails, cash is king.
Australia's barrelling down the same suicidal path. Mothers are shoplifting to feed their kids, driven to crime by a cost-of-living crisis fuelled by mass immigration and economic sabotage. The Salvation Army's 2025 Red Shield Report found 24% of vulnerable Aussies eating expired food and one in 20 scavenging bins. Now, add a cashless society to the mix. When the power cuts out, as it did in Hainan, China, after a typhoon, leaving people unable to buy bread because their money was trapped in dead phones, families will starve. The recent power outage in south Europe killed all POS terminals, small businesses closed, and losses hit millions. Cashless means helpless.
This isn't just about outages, it's about control. The push for a cashless Australia, backed by the Big Four banks and globalist elites, is a deliberate move to trap you in a digital cage. Sweden's backflip exposes the lie: their Riksbank now demands businesses and banks ensure cash access, citing cyberattacks and "turbulent global situations." Why? Because digital systems are fragile: Sweden's U-turn after cyberattack vulnerabilities, and Spain's blackout chaos where shops shut because people didn't have cash. Australia's no different, a man was arrested for trying to withdraw $5,000 of his own money, proof the banks are waging a "war on cash."
The conspiracy runs deep. The same globalists pushing cashless societies are the ones flooding Australia with over 500,000 migrants a year, as Macrobusiness warns, driving up housing costs by 40% since 2020 and crushing Aussie families. The Guardian reported on March 27, 2025, that Australia's living standards have plummeted faster than any OECD nation, yet the government keeps the immigration floodgates open. Why? To create a rootless, controllable population, the Great Replacement, a scheme to dilute Western cultures with mass migration, erasing national identity. Cashless systems fit perfectly: no cash, no freedom. If the grid goes down, you're at the mercy of banks and bureaucrats who can freeze your accounts or track your every move.
It gets worse. The cashless curse dovetails with the global fertility collapse, which Elon Musk calls "the greatest threat to civilization." As discussed here today, at the International Family Forum in Istanbul, experts warned of a demographic crisis: Türkiye's fertility rate crashed from 7 in the 1970s to below 1.5 today, Europe's a "continent of empty cradles," and Australia's at a record low of 1.58. Without kids, the West's workforce shrinks, pensions collapse, and economies crater. Musk's blunt: "If people don't have more children, civilization is going to crumble." In Australia, families can't afford kids, housing costs, inflated by immigration, and stagnant wages make it impossible. Mums shoplifting to feed their kids shows the desperation. A cashless society piles on the pain: when power fails, even those with money can't eat, pushing more into crime or starvation.
The elite don't care. They're too busy profiting from the chaos. The Big Four banks, among the world's most profitable, rake in billions from a population of just 27 million, per Australian Broker News. They push cashless systems to cut costs and tighten control, while Armaguard, Australia's cash transport lifeline, needed a $50 million bailout from banks and retailers to survive. Deloitte's now auditing Armaguard to keep cash flowing, but it's a band-aid on a broken system. When the next blackout hits if the electricity or internet goes down, you have no way to pay.
This ties back to warnings in blog pieces today: mass immigration and multiculturalism are eroding Australia's cohesion. When 25.6% of Germany's population has a migration background, and Australia's net migration hits 500,000, native cultures buckle. Nakiah's story is a microcosm, economic mismanagement and immigration-driven housing costs force honest mums into crime. In a cashless world, the stakes are higher: without cash, a blackout turns desperation into disaster. The American Thinker warned that multicultural empires like Yugoslavia collapsed into tribal warfare when the "social glue" of affluence vanished. Australia's on the same path. When the next crisis, economic or electrical, hits, a cashless, fractured society will implode, with migrant-heavy communities clashing over scarce resources.
Let's not kid ourselves, this is by design. The fertility crisis, mass immigration, and cashless push are threads in a globalist tapestry to dismantle the West. Musk's $10 million to study low fertility is a cry against this, but the elites want a childless, cashless, borderless Australia. The plot to replace native populations with migrants, and the cashless agenda fits like a glove: control the money, control the people. Sweden's Riksbank saw the light after cyberattacks and outages exposed the cashless myth, but Australia's leaders are still asleep, or worse, complicit. The 7News story of Nakiah stealing food is a warning: a society that can't feed its kids, can't pay without power, and can't control its borders is a society on the brink.
Sweden's backflip is a wake-up call, but Australia's still sleepwalking. The RBA cut rates in February 2025, per CNBC, but it won't fix a housing crisis or a fertility collapse. Cash Out Day, where Aussies tried to "drain ATMs" to protest cashless trends, fizzled, per 7News, but 93% of 7,300 Yahoo Finance readers fear a cashless future. They're right to be scared. Without cash, you're a slave to the grid, the banks, and the globalists. Aussie kids go hungry today; tomorrow, it's all of us, unless we stop the globalists.
"Sweden's central bank believes cash still needs to play an essential role in an increasingly cashless world. The Nordic country is considered one of the most cashless nations on the planet, with just one in 10 payments being made with physical money.
The former deputy governor of Sweden's Riksbank thought back in 2018 that the country would be fully cashless by 2025. However, the Riksbank's submission to the country's inquiry on physical money indicates it wants to pull a 180 on that forecast.
"People should always be able to pay for food, healthcare and medicines both digitally and with cash," Riksbank governor Erik Thedéen said.
"The increasingly turbulent global situation, increased cyber attacks and also the major power outages in southern Europe show the importance of being able to make payments even when the internet is down."
Those power outages lasted several hours in Portugal, Spain and parts of France, and highlighted how digital payments are rendered effectively worthless when you don't have any electricity.
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