Cashless stores are already being tested by Gap, Inc. in a few of their west coast stores (where no cash is accepted). I find cashless terrifying and think it’ll destroy freedom.
To know that expenditure decisions (both big and petty) for billions of people are increasingly tied to your identity in a very dynamic way is quite a milestone in our society. While it feels like the dam is breaking and cash sticklers like me are just pushing back in a lost war, I also see a chance to amplify all those ideas people have been working on on distributed payment systems that are accepted by the corner store, digital, anonymous, and stable.
Cashless stores are already being tested by Gap, Inc. in a few of their west coast stores (where no cash is accepted). I find cashless terrifying and think it’ll destroy freedom.
To know that expenditure decisions (both big and petty) for billions of people are increasingly tied to your identity in a very dynamic way is quite a milestone in our society. While it feels like the dam is breaking and cash sticklers like me are just pushing back in a lost war, I also see a chance to amplify all those ideas people have been working on on distributed payment systems that are accepted by the corner store, digital, anonymous, and stable.