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Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.

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Italy’s fintech innovation transforming business with Sardex (slrpnk.net)

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"Sardex, an Italian fintech, created a mutual credit system where businesses exchange goods and services without cash.

This trust-based network has strengthened the local economy and inspired similar models across Italy."

📰 https://positivenewsfoundation.org/video/italys-fintech-innovation-transforming-business-with-sardex/ 📺 https://youtu.be/eeB2tsS6xpM

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[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It is very stupid to use a centralized digital coin to avoid taxes while you can just avoid declaring what you earned when you get cash instead of digital payments

Does your revenue service have a way of monitoring this or would they have to verify each case manually? This is an obfuscation mechanism.

I'm not sure what this means

Are they checking if their business partners are on sanctions lists, as required by law? How many people at Sardex are hired and accountable for compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulations?

In your country companies are legally required and accountable for making sure their user are paying taxes? Here they are required traceability and stuff but it's not their job to do the guardia di finanza job.

I’m not asking who’s collecting taxes but who’s making sure they’re paying taxes. In EU and most of the civilised world banks would be liable if they were aware or didn’t do enough due diligence to spot that.

This is not a bias against Italy, it’s a bias against businessmen. This happening in Sicily just makes for a funnier context.

[–] ex_06@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Does your revenue service have a way of monitoring this or would they have to verify each case manually?

Alright, you keep not reading the article (it clearly says that every transaction has to emit both a fattura and a scontrino). And it's not "my"(nor "ours", i'm not involved) service.

This happening in Sicily

The fact that you confuse Sardegna with Sicilia shows even more that you think you know more than you actually do.

To be clear, I don't think that's it's safe from every abuse but as i said for the businesses here it's much easier to just use cash rather than trying to use digital money.

Sorry but really you are making this conversation less a conversation and more a ''i am right and you have to show me i'm wrong''; hence i'll stop answering.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

The article is very light on real details despite what you claim. I work in AML adjacent field and I can’t help but see that we would politely decline to do business with company that transacts this way.