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    Cash should never be got rid of entirely, but surely it should be up to the business if they want to take cash and then the free market decides if that decision costs them customers or not?

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      This card-only thing is already happening in some places and it’s frustrating. For one, you tend to find out after you’re done shopping or while your order is already being prepared, so you’re being put on the spot. For two, for the store, it makes sense to go cash-free as long as they lose fewer customer payments than they save on cash-handling — but for those few customers who are caught by this, and who may be unbanked or have an incompatible card or high card fees or are just privacy-minded, it becomes harder/impossible to buy stuff at all.

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        If you’re unbanked, that is a you problem. Not a problem that society has to succumb to.
        I want to live in a country that isn’t 50 years behind every other just because some backwards hillbilly decides that “the banks shan’t know what i spend my paycheck on”.
        If you’re that concerned, stop using the Internet. Full stop.

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          If you’re unbanked, that is a you problem.

          Refugees and poor people don’t exist. I forgot. (I live near a refugee facility and bus drivers here don’t accept cash anymore, while most of the ticketing machines have been removed from the bus stops … fun. Essentially people who come here are almost forced into riding the bus without a ticket, at least a couple of times. In Germany, that is a criminal offense and can lead to extradition.)

          the banks shan’t know what i spend my paycheck on

          They legitimately shouldn’t. And neither should my supermarket/drug store be able to collect all my receipts to find out whether I am sick or pregnant.

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            Poor people? Since when can a poor person not get a bank account?
            And since when can a refugee not pay by card?

            And neither should my supermarket/drug store be able to collect all my receipts to find out whether I am sick or pregnant.

            Go complain to the taxman lol. no, complain to the cashier, that the cashier has to forget what you bought immediately after. Delusional.

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              Poor people? Since when can a poor person not get a bank account?

              Have you considered that some people don’t have their life all in order? May have a drug issue?

              And since when can a refugee not pay by card?

              The issue is that most arrive in the EU without an EU bank account. So, yeah, the first few weeks or months, they will not have a bank account.

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                I get though plenty of drugs and ironicly buy them all cashless with crypto. Those people are still entitled to a basic account under a lot of countries legislation.

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                  So, one, with most cryptocurrencies you’re not anonymous and every transaction is on a blockchain. Buying drugs with those may bite you later, depending on whether you develop any kind of ambition to be someone who’s interesting enough to investigate. Two, this comment is not about being entitled to a bank account but about having enough order in your life to handle opening/using an accoutlnt.

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                Have you considered that some people don’t have their life all in order? May have a drug issue?

                Yes, i have also considered that i am vegan and stores can still sell meat. Nonissue. Or do you also argue against and ID System?

                The issue is that most arrive in the EU without an EU bank account.

                When i go to the US i can pay with my german mastercard in every store everywhere.
                This is an issue for EU countries to get over, not me.

                Cash and crypto have more bad than good sides.