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Coincidentally, while reading this over my morning coffee earlier, an email reminder came through from my daughter's school, for the Father's Day stall tomorrow.
It got me thinking there must be millions of tiny little use cases for cash, where tap and pay just isn't feasible.
Not sure what the answer is, but I do believe a cash-reduced society should be the ultimate goal.
But privacy is also a concern. I really wish my bank would introduce a tap and pay app, rather than me having to use Google Pay.
Cashless reduced society still leaves millions of people without access, no thanks!
I didn't say cashless - I said cash-reduced. We need to remove cash from situations where it shouldn't be a requirement, such as gambling venues. While privacy is a fundamental human right, it provides criminals the ability to hide behind a cloak of anonymity.
I believe the goal should be as cashless as we can be, without disadvantaging groups of people that can only use cash.
But that would require a government brave enough to create strong enough laws to safeguard our personal data from abuse and misuse. Not only to stop Big Tech and other megacorps from using our data without consent, but also to punish those responsible for not protecting our data properly, including deletion when it's no longer required (fucking Latitude).
Might as well hope to win the big Powerball prize - both seem equally likely right now...