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Re:On Cash by microcolonel on Sunday October 14, 2018 @12:25AM (#18211356)
> Another point is that cash allows you to buy unethical things and illegal things.

Or even perfectly legal, not-unethical things which are not liked by your payment processor. Many will not process payments for firearms or firearm parts, and a whole host of other things which are perfectly legal; MasterCard (whatever your opinion on the validity of their choice) has coerced Patreon into shutting down the accounts of people whose speech they don't like.

A "cashless" system is one which requires a hell of a lot more regulation on payment processors, or a true virtual equivalent of fiat cash which doesn't involve the policy or whims of processors (or maybe a considerable deregulation, which allows individuals and upstarts to afford to process payments).

Re:On Cash by calcifer on Sunday October 14, 2018 @05:18AM (#18212075)
> perfectly legal, not-unethical things [...] firearms

I think you'll find that plenty of people disagree with you on both of those points, so it's clearly subjective.

Re:On Cash by andai on Sunday October 14, 2018 @07:52AM (#18212465)
Do you mean that some people consider them illegal, yet ethical?