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> Only if you're storing your cash at home, under your mattress. If you're using a bank account, you most assuredly have to deal with accounts, statements, inte
by ls15 5y ago
> Only if you're storing your cash at home, under your mattress. If you're using a bank account, you most assuredly have to deal with accounts, statements, interest and fees.
I know people who prefer cash, because they are not tech-savvy and all the digital stuff including cards gives them anxiety. There is a difference between just having a bank account and using all the digital services that come with it.
- quanticle 5y agoIncreasingly there isn't as banks, always looking to cut costs, pare back the number of branches they have, the number of staff at those branches, and make the phone experience worse in order to drive customers to their websites.
- ls15 5y agoIncreasingly, yes. Unfortunately. However, there are different cash cultures in different countries. Not every country is like Sweden where physical cash is practically unheard of. In Germany there is an online service called barzahlen/viacash (they are renaming) https://www.barzahlen.de https://www.barzahlen.de that allows people to pay cash for online shopping. After checkout, the buyer gets a code that can be scanned by cashiers in certain drugstores and supermarkets, so buyer can pay in cash. I use cash where possible in order to avoid leaving a massive data trail that inevitably will get exploited. It is a method of self-defense for me.