10 reasons to fight cashless contagion - 0 views
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John Kiff on 02 Nov 23"Cash can co-exist with cards and apps, and when kept in balance, the different forms of payment can complement each other. It's only when that balance is removed that the dark side of digital payments gets to flourish. Unfortunately, across the world we're seeing the spread of so-called 'cashlessness', a type of contagion in which the option to pay with non-corporate and non-automated money is incrementally taken away from you. The fight against cashless society, then, is a fight against a state of unbalance. I've campaigned on this for eight years now, and in this piece I'll lay out 10 talking points that you can use to make even the most ardent card-tapper have second thoughts about a totally bank-dominated society."