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Re:Sweden leads the race to become cashless society by bjornsing on Monday August 15, 2016 @10:34AM (#12290683)
> The erosion of the will to dissent, and the power of the individual over their own lives

We Swedes are way past that. We live as humble subjects of our government, cuddled from cradle to grave, bowing to their authority much as we once bowed to the king. :P

But every four years the people is abolished and the government choses a new one, so it's still a democracy! ;P

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Re:Sweden leads the race to become cashless society by bjornsing on Monday August 15, 2016 @10:38AM (#12290717)
I'm only half joking here, and I'm definitely not saying you're wrong. Just trying to explain why we Swedes probably don't think about the cashless society in the same way as americans do.

And by the way, most of my friends would probably describe me as "a borderline libertarian" (by Swedish standards), "fixated" on individual liberties and similar.

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