My wish about payroll
adamlaneus
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There was a time when a business had an accounting office that held the payroll.
On payday, they would give you your earnings right there, through a window, into your hands.
Today, it's this boring electronic transfer directly into the banks.
My wish:
1) I want circulating gold coins back
2) I want to be paid, on payday, with these gold coins.
Just as a novelty. I suppose, before long, there would be groups of thugs just outside of work on payday, ready for their payday.
On payday, they would give you your earnings right there, through a window, into your hands.
Today, it's this boring electronic transfer directly into the banks.
My wish:
1) I want circulating gold coins back
2) I want to be paid, on payday, with these gold coins.
Just as a novelty. I suppose, before long, there would be groups of thugs just outside of work on payday, ready for their payday.
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But before long...
I'D HAVE A ROLL OF THEM!!!!
Can you tell the thought makes me excited?
<< <i>There was a time when a business had an accounting office that held the payroll.
On payday, they would give you your earnings right there, through a window, into your hands.
Today, it's this boring electronic transfer directly into the banks.
My wish:
1) I want circulating gold coins back
2) I want to be paid, on payday, with these gold coins.
>>
When I lived in Vietnam I was standing in line at the bank one day to cash a couple of travelers checks. In front of me was this tiny Vietnamese gal with a large suitcase that looked almost like a salesman's presentation case. There were two tellers helping here and both had stacks and stacks of Vietnam Dong in front of them which they were feeding into the currency counting machines in front of them. The bank vp came and told me I could sit in his office as this was going to take a little while. So in I went and sat down, then someone brought me a tea service in a silver color tea pot and real chinaware along with a little silver color ( silver plate? ) tray of treats. I sat and munched and sipped while another beautiful bank person took my travelers checks to go and turn them into cash, partial vnd and partial usd as I was also flying to Thailand and needed USD to exchange there.
After she left the room and it was just me and the vp, I asked him what was that female doing outside with all that cash . He told me that most people have a mistrust of banks and it was a cash society. Large employers paid their emplyees in cash! I continued to watch until she finally stacked all the money in the suitcase, then put on a mask ( Saigon has much air pollution and people on motorbikes generally wear a mask, so did I, looking like motorized bandits haha ), walked out of the door, got on the back of a motorbike and drove off!
This facinated me and I asked the vp, what about robberies? Wasn't she afraid of getting killed for all that money to which he replied, those kinds of crimes here are few and far between, that the penalty for commiting such a crime is great enough to deter any of that, plus with the primarily budhist society, while petty crimes happen, the big stuff like this rarely does.
But then I asked him about counterfeit money and he told me that it was the banks position that as much as 10% of that cash would be returned as counterfeit and it was already factored.
Many go to the local gold shop to which there are many, wide open on the streets and purchase a little 22K gold. The really well off people will buy .999
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
US Rare Coin Investments
800-624-1870
It's like it says in that old song, "Sixteen Tons," where each day you worked, the deeper in debt to the company you became.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
I'd love to see everyone paid in cash.
And then have to turn around and get in another line to pay taxes.
It would change this nation.