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Think about how digital movies and games are routinely locked and blocked. Do you want the government to be able to do that to all of your liquid cash?
I get your point, but if your government is already screwing up the economy - hoarding physical cash is no better. See African countries and India’s 2016 cash crisis: massive queues at the bank for worthless paper.
Oh the horror! How do you make it through each day, you brave soul?! 🙄🙄🙄
Edit to add because I can feel some bullshit coming my way: I’m both autistic and have OCD, I can sympathise with a whole range of issues from not liking getting your hands wet to not wanting to touch dirty things and having to clean them obsessively after you do, but A. if you have those or similar issues, consider you’re in the wrong line of work, but much more importantly B. those theoretical issues don’t give you a pass to want an essential thing that provides millions of already marginalised people access to something they otherwise wouldn’t have access to (making them even more marginalised, and vulnerable to financial abuse not having cash also enables) gone, because personal comfort.
I see cash as an absolute win
As someone who worked in shops for many years, cash is disgusting and should be burned!
Think about how digital movies and games are routinely locked and blocked. Do you want the government to be able to do that to all of your liquid cash?
I get your point, but if your government is already screwing up the economy - hoarding physical cash is no better. See African countries and India’s 2016 cash crisis: massive queues at the bank for worthless paper.
It’s not about hoarding cash. It’s about privacy and surveillance. Cash is the only truly anonymous means of payment.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/jun/24/you-cant-pay-cash-here-how-cashless-society-harms-most-vulnerable
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/19/cashless-society-con-big-finance-banks-closing-atms
Still doesn’t stop it being disgusting, on a busy day I used to have to wash my hands at least hourly.
Oh the horror! How do you make it through each day, you brave soul?! 🙄🙄🙄
Edit to add because I can feel some bullshit coming my way: I’m both autistic and have OCD, I can sympathise with a whole range of issues from not liking getting your hands wet to not wanting to touch dirty things and having to clean them obsessively after you do, but A. if you have those or similar issues, consider you’re in the wrong line of work, but much more importantly B. those theoretical issues don’t give you a pass to want an essential thing that provides millions of already marginalised people access to something they otherwise wouldn’t have access to (making them even more marginalised, and vulnerable to financial abuse not having cash also enables) gone, because personal comfort.
Bruh tf kind of cash do you handle??? Did people wipe their shit on it or something?