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We chose that when we stopped using cash.
by CalRobert 2mo ago
We chose that when we stopped using cash.
- mdp2021 2mo ago> stopped using cash You stopped using cash? It is one of the most insane things I ever heard. You transactions are tracked, I assume? The rule in the eu (PSD2) is that a dozen private/public/hybrid/other databases, of unclear substantial identity, will record your transactions. And what if you had a an infrastructural shortage? No transactions then? How can people think of "cashless society" as something outside a dystopia?
- CalRobert 2mo agoWe agree. I meant in the aggregate. Cash is very rare here in NL at least.
- inigyou 2mo agoYeah especially in Ukraine. An active war zone. Russia bombs the power plant again and you can't buy groceries?
- emj 2mo agoBecause cash sucks. Haven't used cash in 10 years. I agree it is problematic. I guess a high trust society enables it NL and SE are such places.
- mdp2021 2mo ago> a high trust society That is in fact a highly naïve, direly naïve society: (*) the data is not contained into national boundaries by law already, and (*) you cannot know what will happen to the country and society in n years time.
- WhyNotHugo 2mo agoA great deal of shops in the Netherlands don't take cash. Some didn't before 2020, but during 2020 the trend accelerated, and many shops stopped taking cash. Aside from hygiene, it's also easier to deal with safety for the store (i.e.: nobody can steal the cash register). The supermarket in my neighbourhood has ~30 self-checkout machines. Only one of them takes cash. The human-checkout also takes cash, but is usually closed.
- mdp2021 2mo ago> A great deal of shops in the Netherlands don't take cash There is a possibility that such practice violates EU legislation in the terms of "paper" Euro being legal tender on the territory.
- Telaneo 2mo agoSo before I was even born?