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Re:Harvard Economist Is Trying to Kill Cash by sneak on Saturday September 10, 2016 @09:14AM (#12469037)
Spoken like someone who has never had their accounts extrajudicially frozen.

How do you pay your lawyer when the state or bank decides to steal from you?

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Re:Harvard Economist Is Trying to Kill Cash by ddorian43 on Saturday September 10, 2016 @09:20AM (#12469050)
How much do you keep in cash? Enough to pay your lawyer ?
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Re:Harvard Economist Is Trying to Kill Cash by sneak on Saturday September 10, 2016 @07:10PM (#12471304)
I have plenty of assets which I can sell for cash in a pinch - should cash actually still exist.

When everything is a bank transfer, your very right to transact is at the mercy of the government.

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Re:Harvard Economist Is Trying to Kill Cash by ddorian43 on Sunday September 11, 2016 @03:35AM (#12472396)
Agree that makes more sense.
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Re:Harvard Economist Is Trying to Kill Cash by ci5er on Saturday September 10, 2016 @01:19PM (#12470094)
> How do you pay your lawyer when the state or bank decides to steal from you?

In my (limited?) experience, unless the lawyer costs <$5000, you have good friends, or the lawyer likes you an awful lot, you kind of still need to tap your (now frozen) bank account for this use-case.

I do not recommend being in this situation.

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