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Speaking just to crime, there are still about 10 bank robberies per day in the US[1], plus many crimes against individuals where the goal is to obtain cash. I w
by Meekro 8y ago
Speaking just to crime, there are still about 10 bank robberies per day in the US[1], plus many crimes against individuals where the goal is to obtain cash. I would think that a cashless society would have much less of this?
[1] https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/bank-crime-statistics-2017.pdf/view https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/bank-crime-statistics-20...
- MisterTea 8y agoCash is just a bartering medium. You can barter using stolen valuables. Cashless won't stop poverty and desperation. People will adapt and we'll see a shift in crimes.
- theamk 8y agoBut much fewer places have valuables compared to cash. Most of the food and service places have nothing worth stealing -- but often carry lots of cash. (or at least used to, some of them since moved to credit-card only [1]) There are other crime-reducing forces as well -- smart car keys which are harder to steal, activation lock on the phones which prevent reselling, and so on. I do wonder how crime would adopt to future cashless society. I think most of the mugging and pickpocketing will go away. Will this mean increase of burglary? Or will the criminals start doing something else? [1] https://www.cloverfoodlab.com/2015/04/23/credit-trucks/ https://www.cloverfoodlab.com/2015/04/23/credit-trucks/