Dont you know that cash is unpatriotic? Please refrain from using it anymore. Make everything electronic so we have an excellent paper trail to ensure domestic security and civility. What you don't like it? You must be one of them...
the term "paper trail" is just a term its not meant to be taken as literal. The term stemmed from the days of file records which where made from,yes you guessed it, paper. Cash is untracable by government, you dont see drug deals being made with visa cards, imagine what would happen to the black market if paper money was eliminated....
imagine what would happen to the black market if paper money was eliminated....
People would conduct business in anything else that's a) physical and b) scarce - go back to gold, or certain drugs would *be* the currency.
Neuromancer anyone? Don't remember exactly, but I think cash has been made illegal, yet everyone keeps using one currency of which there is still plenty around in a kind of totally separate underground economy. Rather realistic, that bit, if you ask me.
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People would conduct business in anything else that's a) physical and b) scarce - go back to gold, or certain drugs would *be* the currency.
Neuromancer anyone? Don't remember exactly, but I think cash has been made illegal, yet everyone keeps using one currency of which there is still plenty around in a kind of totally separate underground economy. Rather realistic, that bit, if you ask me.