25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society

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Post by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB » Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 1:32 PM UTC

25M Brits would struggle in a cashless society
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Post by cascom » Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 2:31 PM UTC

The implications of a cashless society on privacy are terrifying

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Post by tonyedgecombe » Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 2:42 PM UTC

If 25 million are dependent on cash then we won’t be going cashless any time soon.

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Post by sbacic » Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 2:50 PM UTC

I've recently visited London for the first time. What really stunned me was the huge number of homeless people. They were practically everywhere.

And they all relied on cash donations. I wonder what will happen to these people as society becomes more and more cashless? What effect will it have on crime?

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Post by mymythisisthis » Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 2:52 PM UTC

You need to keep things off the books sometimes. Try saving up for a significant other's gift, if you can't keep a few things hidden.

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Post by esotericn » Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 2:53 PM UTC

Britain is not Britain in this regard.

London has a ton of places that don't accept cash already.

Go to smaller towns in the North and you'll hit minimum charges to use a card or broken machines.

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Post by purple-again » Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 2:57 PM UTC

This reads very strongly like someone made a conclusion and then looked for every detail they could they thought might support that theory, some much weaker than others.

These types of articles are only useful if your looking for a starting point to get a conversation going on a topic. They are not good for supporting your conclusion one way or the other once you have analyzed the topic.

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Post by verbify » Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 2:59 PM UTC

mymythisisthis wrote: post #5

You need to keep things off the books sometimes. Try saving up for a significant other's gift, if you can't keep a few things hidden.

Do you not have a personal bank account that your significant other doesn't audit?

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Post by jstanley » Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 3:06 PM UTC

One of the problems with a cashless society is that the banks aren't required to give you a bank account.

If none of the banks will give you a bank account, and there's no such thing as cash... then you're just not allowed to have money. That shouldn't be a position that it is possible to get into.

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Post by m-i-l » Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 3:07 PM UTC

sbacic wrote: post #4

I've recently visited London for the first time. What really stunned me was the huge number of homeless people. They were practically everywhere. And they all relied on cash donations. I wonder what will happen to these people as society becomes more and more cashless? What effect will it have on crime?

It does seem to have got a lot more evident in recent years. Not really solving the underlying issues leading to there being so many in the first place, but some homeless do accept contactless donations[0] and there is a city-wide contactless donation scheme[1].

[0] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/homeless-people-wearing-b...

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46372244 and https://www.taplondon.org