The beauty of cash is that it is money, not merely pinky-promising to be money. The “cashless” world was supposed to prevent fraud but clearly it doesn’t work.

The beauty of cash is that it is money, not merely pinky-promising to be money. The “cashless” world was supposed to prevent fraud but clearly it doesn’t work. Instead we’re moving into a world of reputation and heuristics, with implications down to the level of individuals and small businesses. I don’t particularly like to carry cash. But being shadow banned from existing by deliberately obscured algorithms could be much worse.