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minus-squarefine_sandy_bottomlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoHave you been to a shop in the last 20 years? I’m genuinely curious how you envisage that everyone could pay cash during a power outage. Items don’t have price stickers. Cashiers couldn’t reliable total up more than a few items. Customers couldn’t be given itemised receipts. In an end-of-days style apocalypse, sure trade would carry on, but the existence of “cash” wouldn’t be relevant. As I started off by saying, this is such a lame reason to argue for the existence of cash.
Have you been to a shop in the last 20 years?
I’m genuinely curious how you envisage that everyone could pay cash during a power outage.
Items don’t have price stickers. Cashiers couldn’t reliable total up more than a few items. Customers couldn’t be given itemised receipts.
In an end-of-days style apocalypse, sure trade would carry on, but the existence of “cash” wouldn’t be relevant.
As I started off by saying, this is such a lame reason to argue for the existence of cash.