We grew up with Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash and Bob Hope. Now there's no jobs, no cash and no hope. Please don't let anything happen to Kevin Bacon!Money? As in c ... c ... cash? Is that how you spell it? Shouldn't that be in the "things you don't see anymore" thread?
But great you're a happier fellow because of it. Lord knows, we have to take our pleasures whenever they materialise now.
When you remove all your money. Not 1p to your name. Your wealth is what you have around you or own. I think about that sometimes.I had a nice surprise when I counted the money in my wallet today. I realised that I had £20 more than I thought I had before. I must have missed a note when I did my last money count.
Little things like that really cheer me up.
I can assure you that good, "old-fashioned" cash has not quite gone the way of the dodo just yet, lol. I see lots of people every day using cash and getting it out of ATMs. I don't think that it will be consigned to the history books anytime soon, lol.Money? As in c ... c ... cash? Is that how you spell it? Shouldn't that be in the "things you don't see anymore" thread?
But great you're a happier fellow because of it. Lord knows, we have to take our pleasures whenever they materialise now.
What a horrible thought. That's like something from one of my worst nightmares. If that should ever happen, I doubt that I would be around for very much longer. It doesn't sound like a world that I would want to live in, anyway.I agree with you there, especially for small incidental purchases like transport tickets or coffee and snacks but since the pandemic I'm encountering more and more places that won't take cash. And of course the government has an agenda there, monitoring and controlling all transactions, and theoretically at least, being able to 'adjust' the value of, or restrict an individual's money if they ever went to a fully digital currency where of course each unit is numbered, like crypto. Like the Chinese control people with social credit (sanctions for not toeing the party line, essentially), but instantly and electronically, rather than their carrot and stick system.
What worries me about the gradual move away from cash is this: you are too old or for other reasons unable to drive. Perhaps you rely on public transport to get to hospital or just the shops for food. There are no banks or post offices with counter service. The bus only takes some card or other, and there is no human at the train station any more.
Your eyesight or cognitive ability, or memory is beginning to go, so smartphones are too expensive, too confusing, your hands are too arthritic to work the touch screen, and anyway someone hacked it because you've had it 5 years and don't know how to install the latest OS, or it's too old to run it and your meagre state pension won't stretch to a new smartphone even if you wanted one, or knew how to use it. You could literally starve to death or be unable to access medical care.
I tell you, if we're not careful, they're going to make anyone who can't keep up with the tech race either financially or cognitively essentially worse than 2nd class citizens; they could be totally disenfranchised, left unable to use transport or even receive or spend their own money. God help us from 40-something Chief Tech Officers and CFOs who railroad all these csshless unmanned systems through in critical services all in the name of "efficiency savings". They're literally selling their own granny, and everyone else's.
Probably sounds a bit alarmist and far-fetched right now, but I doubt anyone would be able to advocate against it when the government and big businesses stand to gain. We're a way off it yet of course, but that's what they said about 1984 in 1948.
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