Will you accept the cashless society?

[Conspiracy Nut]

Are you one of those cashless society goons jumping on covid as an excuse to curtail cash or are you a cash carrying cat?

[Gopher Gary]

I don't like the idea of a cashless society. I don't really use cash so I tend to give my cash to beggars, because that's the only time I generally think about whether or not I happen to have some cash. 

[Conspiracy Nut]

can I have some cash?

[Gopher Gary]

 

[Gopher Gary]

I usually prefer passive beggars over the ones who approach me, like the random person sitting quietly with a sign. 

[Dirty Big Yoke]

I'm all for luxury space communism 

[Conspiracy Nut]

I usually prefer passive beggars over the ones who approach me, like the random person sitting quietly with a sign. 

That's actually good advice. I'll set up an e-begging site with some blog posts and put it in my signature. seems the thing to do these days.

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

For a business owner, it has been making more and more sense to accept payments electronically rather than in cash. There are costs and risks involved in taking payments in cash.

Cash is disappearing a lot faster than most of us realize.

I have done a fair amount of work around designing electronic payment solutions in e-commerce and mobile payments, I'm happy to discuss this in depth if anyone is interested.

How many of us are old enough to remember getting a pay packet in literal cash? As in an envelope with actual banknotes inside?

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

Question: if you are NOT going to accept the cashless society, how would that non-acceptance actually work?

We are literally most of the way there already.

There is a parallel drive, which I'm sure most people haven't noticed, towards reducing the amount of documentation you need in order to sign up for a service, open a bank account, yada yada yada. There is a whole lot of hard science behind collecting information electronically and "reducing friction".

[Gopher Gary]

I'm all for luxury space communism 

I once heard someone say, cash is the currency of poor people, so yeah, a lot of things would need to change first or it would definitely seem like an attack on the poor.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cashless-retailers-penalize-the-poor-critics-say/

[Conspiracy Nut]

There is a whole lot of hard science behind collecting information electronically and "reducing friction".

Its called form fill and its not a science. can make some good cash selling that shit to the [name your industry] companies and you don't need any scientific training. 

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

There is a whole lot of hard science behind collecting information electronically and "reducing friction".

Its called form fill and its not a science. can make some good cash selling that shit to the [name your industry] companies and you don't need any scientific training.

Nah, that's a different beast to what I am talking about.

[Conspiracy Nut]

a conspiracy to make us buy things? go on....

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

a conspiracy to make us buy things? go on....

Not a conspiracy. Just a bunch of people (business owners, banks, consumers) acting in their own interest and for their own convenience.

I will add some more detail around this a bit later.

[Conspiracy Nut]

sounds conspiratorial, lol.