• doylio@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    The powers that be will likely push for cashless society because it gives them more surveillance & control

    If credit/debit cards were the norm and cash was invented today, it would likely be outlawed down because criminals/terrorists/child kidnappers will use if for nefarious purposes

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      3 months ago

      No, it’s just more convenient to use credit or debit.

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    3 months ago

    In Canada we got a solid reminder of the importance of cash when the Rogers outage took Interac and many credit card processing systems offline…

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      3 months ago

      That says more about the disgusting state of Canadian infrastructure than in does about electronic payment. A lot of places could’t operate their POS at all without an internet connection.