What was the only problem with the cashless society trials?
In cashless society trials in America and Scandinavia, the system worked, but the only problem was that checkout lines began backing up. Participants could never quickly find their card and purse, so the delay came from human disorganization, not from the cashless mechanism itself.
Les explains that these cashless society trials, tried in areas of America and Scandinavia, asked whether a community could go 30 or 60 days without ever using a checkbook or billfold. It worked. The only problem was that checkout lines started backing up because the people in the trials could never find their card and their purse. He ties this to broader tracking technology, noting that supermarket scanners can keep track of products down to the last detail, so tracking every human being is also possible, and he connects it to the mark of the beast as an 18-digit number of 666.