Do you support America becoming a cashless society?

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Discuss.

[Dr. MB]

Horrible idea. I'd go the opposite actually. Everywhere should be required to accept cash as a payment.

Credit cards are also a scam. Debit I've got no problem with but cash is the most secure way to pay for things.

[Santander]

Considering America is basically the last place in the developed world that still uses checks and was among the last to get things like contactless payment, much more needs to be done to improve payment infrastructure and interoperability. Even the beggars in China don't take cash - they use AliPay. Advancements such as switching to polymer notes also need to be made.

But cash will be necessary, for privacy, among other reasons, for the foreseeable future.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Strong disapprove. Would suck for strippers.

[Santander]

Strong disapprove. Would suck for strippers.

The reason people use cash in strip clubs is not that you can't run a strip club without cash, but that the guests don't want a paper trail or get scammed by the scumbag owner.

[vitoNova]

Strongly approve.

Paper bills and coins should go the way of the dodo bird.  I should be able to scan my iris into a Voight-Kaumpf like machine to pay for things. 

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Strong disapprove. Would suck for strippers.

The reason people use cash in strip clubs is not that you can't run a strip club without cash, but that the guests don't want a paper trail or get scammed by the scumbag owner.

Or that many such operations are fronts for laundering cash.

[Cassius]

https://youtu.be/H07zYvkNYL8

[bagelman]

Disapprove. I gotta have paper just in case I get paranoid over The Man tracking my purchases.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Approve but it's irrelevant to me anyway. It's more convenient and more secure. I haven't not used a credit card for anything in months.

[KaiserDave]

Horrific idea

[Xing]

No. Contactless payment options were overdue, but we shouldn’t be taking away cash payment as an option.

[Ferguson97]

Awful idea

[S019]

I think credit cards could work fine, I don’t care either way, but I don’t get the backlash.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

We first need to make it easy for the unbanked to get affordable access to banking services before we could ever consider going cashless.

[Former President tack50]

Extremely bad and stupid idea; and also a very dangerous one.

Justifying it based on "well it will stop fraud" is like justifying government surveillance based on "you don't have anything to fear if you don't do anything wrong".

[dead0man]

We first need to make it easy for the unbanked to get affordable access to banking services before we could ever consider going cashless.

while it must suck for people who don't have $500 in income a month to wave banking fees of $10/month (those are Wells Fargo's rules, YMMV), the only two obvious solutions are bad.  The govt shouldn't be able to force other entities to do it and everyone knows that if the govt got in the job of "Banking for Poors" that it would be a slow and sh**tty service for the poors and cost the rest of us $45B year.


As for the OP, if sellers want to go cashless and their customers don't care, they should be able to do that....the govt shouldn't force it upon them.  On the other hand, the seller wants to keep using cash, and their consumers are fine with that, the govt shouldn't force them to go cashless.  As always, the govt shouldn't be sticking their dick into voluntary trade between people who want to trade.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

We first need to make it easy for the unbanked to get affordable access to banking services before we could ever consider going cashless.

while it must suck for people who don't have $500 in income a month to wave banking fees of $10/month (those are Wells Fargo's rules, YMMV), the only two obvious solutions are bad.  The govt shouldn't be able to force other entities to do it and everyone knows that if the govt got in the job of "Banking for Poors" that it would be a slow and sh**tty service for the poors and cost the rest of us $45B year.

Actually, the most likely solution would be the resumption of postal banking. While the service wouldn't be at the level of private banks (it never was), it wouldn't need to be.

[RINO Tom]

What does this entail...?  Like, do I think we would be cashless in an ideal scenario, or do I support some coordinated, costly effort to make us cashless with haste?

[DINGO Joe]

please get rid of the penny

[Frodo]

I don't see the problem or the backlash.  It's going to be a gradual transition regardless, giving everyone plenty of time to adjust. 

[junior chįmp]

No because i like to make it rain