Exactly the way I said you would too. You don't call me a luddite because I already pointed that out and it would be too obvious if you use the word so instead you completely ignore the points I made and instead pretend I argued that we should go all Amish and ban technology.

This way you can avoid having to deal with the social implications of work shortages. You even at the end managed to shift the blame to the people losing their jobs and their livelihoods.

This way as society collapses around you as long as you aren't personally affected you don't have to do anything. I mean anything except talk about how fucking awesome you are and how much everybody else are lazy and shiftless.

All I can say is you better hope you die of old age before the effects of your line of thought come home to roost. You can only ignore the collapse of human civilization for so long. Especially when people with literally trillions of dollars are making it happen sooner. I used to think guys like you would get away with it but Elon Musk and the rest of those pieces of shit have accelerated things so much I don't think he will anymore.

Cash isn't going anywhere. Cryptocurrency might. It is primarily used for money laundering and crime.

Honestly if they just crack down on the money laundering it goes away overnight.

There's plenty of work that should be done. For example, wild fires cause $400-900 billion in damages every year in the US, yet nobody wants to pay for prevention. Poor road conditions costs $167 billion to $169 billion annually. The lack of affordable child care costs the U.S. economy $172 billion annually.

What's missing is the recognition that unemployed people need to eat anyways, so it's a sunk cost. You can put those people into an after-school program, or send them to the forest and clean up debris, or any of the millions of other things that actually make money in the long term.

At some point, it stops being a mob and starts being a vote. And while it makes sense to not allow people to drag random folks onto the platform just to vote your way, it doesn't make sense to limit voting on an important issue to the 0.1% of users who pay close enough attention to notice. So I can see both sides on this one.

Maybe the right thing to do is to require a certain level of activity to earn the right to vote, then dump the canvassing rules. That way, any canvassing would only serve to increase turnout, rather than truly padding the ballot box.

You seem to be stuck in some paranoid delusion there. Get help.

Hmm. Maybe. Probably not though, because the cost may be prohibitive for smaller businesses, unless they are allowed to alternatively accept cash as well and refuse the digital version. But then the digital version loses most of its advantages.

Oh, some groups of people are ging cashless, no doubt. But that is quite different from a whole society doing it.

I did not expect you to understand my comment. Oh, and look, you did not. Well.

It's called gambling.

What is this "skim" you are talking about? An "Echtzeit-Überweisung" may, by law, not be more expensive than a regular SEPA transfer. For most private customers, SEPA transfers are free these days.

I am really getting tired of big-mouth no-clue people like you.

I could have done that an hour ago. Yes, it would have been an actual, instant bank transfer and the only payment processor involved would have been a domestic one. I prefer to pay cash, but it is absolutely no problem doing things electronically with no US service provider anywhere in there.

I do not know where you get your information from, but as usual, it sucks.

Europe is not gong cashless. Some politicians dream of it, but it is not going to happen.

Nothing will ever change because so far it hasn't. I'm glad you were here to clear that up for us. Thank you

You use it because it's a layer between you and whoever you're paying. It lets you dispute charges. And you don't have to give anyone direct access to your cash.

Your fake superiority and arrogance is simply one thing: unbecoming.