I love how in a PRIVACY Lemmy community there are people who actually, unironically argue for a dystopian cashless society.
We’re all fucked, aren’t we?
I’m sure someone, somewhere is. The bigger problem is that society seems to be moving in that direction without first having a serious debate about whether it’s a good idea.
I take a hard line and hold the position that, if you’re in business, you should be required to accept legal tender (maybe only up to a threshold where Know Your Customer laws kick in). There’s a strong social value in there being spaces for unmonitored transactions.
Who said cashless means dystopian. With a state-issued, privacy-focused cryptocurrency, you could absolutely have a cashless society where people can keep unknown amounts of money in wallets, supervised by decentralised networks, and without the need for banks to mediate transactions.