When everything works, electronic payment system are way more convenient. But that's a big problem with our current societies: we keep trading "good for democr

When everything works, electronic payment system are way more convenient. But that's a big problem with our current societies: we keep trading "good for democracy" to "convenient for best case". People use electronic voting machines, centralize all their data in the GAFAs databases, buy everything from amazon, get all entertainments from DRMized ad saturated controlled medias... And then, when you discuss at diner about the big world issues, everybody say that "we can't do anything about it". Well, for a start, we could live our live thinking about the society we are building instead of just what's comfortable right now. We are enjoying a lof of peace right now in rich countries. It's not going to last forever, since nothing does (and history calls). In 10 years or 200 years, our countries will drift to a dictatorship phase. But it's not an immediate state you get to. It's a slow decent into madness. You really, really want to have cash to have a healthy society. You need something malevolent players can't control. You need something less centralized so you can't be stopped from using it, or by spied on if you use it. At least for a reasonable small amount. I get you need control for big sums. There is not good reason for a company or an entity to hide money transactions. But for humans ? There are a ton of good ones, and it's just being a good citizen to stand for keeping it around.