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I hope cash will last for 50 years or so (at looking at how legacy systems are maintained it is realistic). One less point of identification - one less point of
by Yizahi 12y ago
I hope cash will last for 50 years or so (at looking at how legacy systems are maintained it is realistic).
One less point of identification - one less point of attack on a person. And I'm not even paranoid, massive spying on people using metadata and selling it to the highest bidder is already real today.
And situation of leaving stuff due to lack of cash is actually good for majority of people - you either a) monitor for finances before starting activity that involves payments, and then you do this regularly everywhere. Or b) you learn to discard and don't buy most useless products on the market. It's a win-win.
- petercooper 12y agoAnd situation of leaving stuff due to lack of cash is actually good for majority of people I agree. My significant other is very poor at handling money but there are so many things companies and banks do to make it easy for them to spend money in a cash-free way. Overdrafts, clothes stores offering a 'card' which give you a discount but then lets you run up a balance, and similar bullshit. It's gotten so bad I'm going to get them a chargecard they put money on at the start of the money and then use like cash..