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Re:In praise of cash by jk563 on Friday March 03, 2017 @12:43PM (#13784562)
I don't see this as a given. I for one would be more than happy to have a cashless society, and I would struggle to believe that I'm unique out of the ~7 billion there are of us.
Re:In praise of cash by M_Grey on Friday March 03, 2017 @12:49PM (#13784609)
Doubtless you're part of a fairly large demographic... that's part of the problem which has no easy solution.
Re:In praise of cash by ghaff on Friday March 03, 2017 @05:18PM (#13787367)
Have an upvote. But also try to understand why many people are uncomfortable with the idea that even modest transactions can be monitored by governmental agencies. In practice, there are always ways to work outside the system of course. But to the degree these become real exceptions they become that much more suspicious as a result.
Re:In praise of cash by jk563 on Saturday March 04, 2017 @05:05AM (#13790214)
Error in conciseness! I can empathise completely and do understand the reasoning of the opinion of a large number of people who do not want a third party being privy to every transaction. I was attempting to convey that there are likely many people on both sides of the debate, should have expanded a bit more!