• fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    Have you been to a shop in the last 20 years?

    I’m genuinely curious how you envisage that everyone could pay cash during a power outage.

    Items don’t have price stickers. Cashiers couldn’t reliable total up more than a few items. Customers couldn’t be given itemised receipts.

    In an end-of-days style apocalypse, sure trade would carry on, but the existence of “cash” wouldn’t be relevant.

    As I started off by saying, this is such a lame reason to argue for the existence of cash.