Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia

Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by Aeolun on Saturday November 10, 2018 @07:14PM (#18424271)

This has been my experience going on holiday in the Netherlands. Everything functions on cards and touch payments.

I’m living in Japan where everything is cash, and it’s just such a culture shock to go to a place where I cannot simply pay for everything with cash...

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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by jeofken on Saturday November 10, 2018 @07:45PM (#18424376)

There are many ways in which Japan is more civilized than Sweden is.

Speaking as a Swedish native who lived in japan for years

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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by zmk_ on Saturday November 10, 2018 @10:22PM (#18424838)

Cash is not one of those things though. Nor is the system of buying metro tickets with cash only and without an option to change language.

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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by Aeolun on Saturday November 10, 2018 @10:53PM (#18424950)

Metro tickets with cash only seem fine to me. What is your problem with that?

I believe inside of Tokyo almost all the machines also support a variety of languages now, but there might be a scattered few with only Japanese.

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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by wtdo on Sunday November 11, 2018 @02:25AM (#18425366)

I just left Osaka yesterday. I didn't use every machine, but I never found one that didn't support English.

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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by mav3rick on Sunday November 11, 2018 @08:39AM (#18426299)

There is a big "English" option. Plus other languages as well.

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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by zmk_ on Sunday November 11, 2018 @12:34PM (#18427471)

I might have been unlucky then, but the one machine I was in contact with before I ceded all responsibility on my host was Japanese only.

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