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Cash enables muggings so we must ban cash?
by toxik 5y ago
Cash enables muggings so we must ban cash?
- Raed667 5y agoAsk someone younger than 20 if they have more than 10$ cash on them.
- tptacek 5y agoWe don't have a huge mugging problem. We have muggings (I've been mugged), but they occur infrequently enough that society isn't disrupted. You can't say that about ransomware. Not only that, but we have done things to defang muggings; for instance, it's been made less lucrative (and more dangerous for the mugger) to steal a modern phone.
- toxik 5y agoBut that’s not what decides if cash is viable. If we had a huge mugging problem, we would call for better law enforcement, not less cash.
- tptacek 5y agoNo, people generally carry much less cash now, and part of the reason why is that it's so easily stolen.
- devonbleak 5y agoI'd argue that's a small part of the reason. Like a rounding error vs the inconvenience factor of dealing with stuff like coins, having to go to a physical location during restrictive hours/days to obtain more than a trivial amount of cash, etc.
- endisneigh 5y agoyou say this in jest but in reality plenty of people have stopped using cash by themselves for this exact reason.
- toxik 5y agoPeople abandoned cash out of convenience, not fear of mugging.
- endisneigh 5y agoSure, but there are some people who don’t carry cash because of mugging and other related things (can get lost, be stolen, etc)
- devonbleak 5y agoYou're talking a rounding error on the number of people that don't carry cash simply because it's not convenient to obtain and deal with it.
- SavantIdiot 5y agoYou literally did not read my post. I address your exact fallacy.
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