http://www.ghacks.net/2012/03/19/who-in-their-right-mind-would-want-a-cashless-society/
Who In Their Right Mind Would Want A Cashless Society?
I pay with cash wherever I go. Heck (& I all-so pay cash be no good in New Zealand)
https://www.zdnet.com/blog/feeds/sweden-leads-move-to-cashless-mobile-economy/4656
But would we survive without the green and folding bills in our wallet? Would bank robberies and muggings actually reduce as they have in Sweden?
After all, what is the point robbing a bank or mugging someone if there is no cash there to steal?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/17/sweden-eu-cash-cashless-money_n_1355510.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008
Sweden Cash
STOCKHOLM -- Sweden was the first European country to introduce bank notes in 1661. Now it's come farther than most on the path toward getting rid of them.
"I can't see why we should be printing bank notes at all anymore,"
But there are pockets of resistance. Hanna Celik, whose family owns a newspaper kiosk in a Stockholm shopping mall, says the digital economy is all about banks seeking bigger earnings.
Celik says he gets charged about 5 Swedish kronor ($0.80) for every credit card transaction, and a law passed by the Swedish Parliament prevents him from passing on that charge to consumers.
"That stinks," he says. "For them (the banks), this is a very good way to earn a lot of money, that's what it's all about. They make huge profits."
Swedish buses have already stopped accepting cash after a series of robberies.
“Do these politicos ever think before they speak. There should be a ‘Tax’ on dumb ideas. We should not have to be subjected to their idiocy, day after day.”
