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Obligatory Neuromancer (1984) reference: His total assets were quickly converted to New Yen, a fat sheaf of the old paper currency that circulated endlessly th
by keiferski 3y ago
Obligatory Neuromancer (1984) reference:
His total assets were quickly converted to New Yen, a fat sheaf of the old paper currency that circulated endlessly through the closed circuit of the world's black markets like the seashells of the Trobriand islanders. It was difficult to transact legitimate business with cash in the Sprawl; in Japan, it was already illegal.
I am fairly convinced that using cash will slowly be labeled as a "criminal" activity and gradually shamed into non-use by regular people.
- toenail 3y ago> I am fairly convinced that using cash will slowly be labeled as a "criminal" activity and gradually shamed into non-use by regular people. Of course. The only people who need cash are criminals and terrorists. Now move along citizen.
- generic92034 3y agoThat would not work at all in many countries. There are some with a strong attachment to cash.
- keiferski 3y agoSorry, my comment was too vaguely written, but I meant to imply that it won't be the government that does this, but regular people enforcing social norms. "We aren't the kind of people that use cash," and so forth.
- mdp2021 3y ago> The only people who There have been political groups spreading and promoting exactly that concept. "Thieves and junkies", they say. Forgetting completely "people with dignity" - also because that image is fading from aggregate memory.
- casperc 3y agoWell to be fair, in my country (Denmark), that is mostly the case. For normal purchases, using cash is very much not the norm. But paying a carpenter, cleaner or similar, who will give a lower rate (and not pay income tax and VAT), that is very much the norm (though socially frowned upon). Also drugs I guess.
- rjblackman 3y agodemand for bitcoin will keep climbing.