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There are also significant advantages to cashless. Greatly reduced incentive to pickpocket or mug people, for example, and it's harder to accidentally lose mone
by TulliusCicero 7y ago
There are also significant advantages to cashless. Greatly reduced incentive to pickpocket or mug people, for example, and it's harder to accidentally lose money.
- aNoob7000 7y agoIf people truly understood the ramification of a completely cashless society, I think they would have no problem with some of the trade-offs.
- hndamien 7y agoIf they cashless society used Monero, or a fungible version of Bitcoin, sure. Even then though, it still excludes people without digital means - which is immoral.
- torified 7y agoSure, if it's anonymous cryptocoins. But I don't want the government able to monitor every $2 purchase I make. Please state what all the positive ramifications you are referring to are. All I see is essentially some extra convenience in exchange for a probable privacy nightmare.
- mamon 7y agoBut it is much easier to loose your money to hackers than it is to people muggers or burglars. Being a software developer by trade I have growing distrust to software in general and software handling my money in particular.
- atemerev 7y agoUsing cash is an option, if you don’t want to — you don’t have to.