It doesn't have to be that dramatic. Sure, abolishing cash is problematic from a civil rights perspective, but a simple thing like a payment major processor hav

It doesn't have to be that dramatic. Sure, abolishing cash is problematic from a civil rights perspective, but a simple thing like a payment major processor having a two-day outage would be disastrous in a cash-less society. Many proponents of abolishing cash seem to think that one can avoid outages by simply requiring that payment processors aren't allowed to have outages. Unfortunately, outages tend to happen even when they're inconvenient. And that's just technical issues -- add the risk of cyber attacks, acts of war, or the Sun ejecting a load straight in the face of Mother Earth, and it's not a matter of _if_ there will be an outage. It's just a matter of when and how we deal with t. Cash is a very good backup plan for such occasions.