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user-inactivated  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do you have cash on you?

I had a VFW meeting last night and they only take cash. Otherwise, it's 2015. Why would I go somewhere that doesn't take a card? I can lose cash, it can be easily stolen, I can get the wrong change back and not notice. The only thing you should use cash for is illegal drugs.





mk  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    The only thing you should use cash for is illegal drugs.

I expect that is going to be the nature of a cashless society. At some point, your earnings and spending will always be inseparable from your identity.

OftenBen  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    At some point, your earnings and spending will always be inseparable from your identity.

I would wager that in some places we're pretty much there already.

steve  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

true enough... I'm sure that my bank and my credit card company could put together a frighteningly accurate picture of my habits, my religion, my travels, and my friends.

OftenBen  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Your GPS history alone will establish like, all of that except religion, unless you regularly attend services.

steve  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yep. And I do... And I got thinking... If they also teamed up with my wireless carrier and my browser history/cookies...

It's game over. I exist as a set of data.

And don't judge me for my naked albino midget porn fetish.

am_Unition  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've wondered if the universal "quick $60" option at ATM's is at least in part driven by purchase of eighth-ounce increments of marijuana.

tacocat  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

With Square and other card readers I don't suppose even prostitution and drugs are immune to cards