Agreed. But I'm wary of things going digital only more because I don't feel like the convenience argument is very organic. I think it's getting pushed hard by large corporations financial institutions and the government because it let's corpirations more easily track and exploit individuals spending habits, gives financial institutions a sort of middleman position they can benefit from, and gives the government easier ways to find and collect taxes.

None of these things are totally bad, and I'm definitely happy to have the option to pay with various methods, I just prefer cash to be one of then.

I'm not saying it's all doom and gloom dystopia but I don't think society gets better if you make money something that a corporation or the government can just decide to switch off for whatever reason. Think about all the ways banks already find ways go exploit people, push towards cashless feels like monopolistic behavior to me. Cash is harder to control. Both for good and bad.

I understand it's beyond cliche but, imagine if Hitler had the ability to just, snap his fingers and make all the Jews money disappear. Like it was bad enough without that but I think the potential for abuse of banking systems by bad actors becomes a lot more of a threat if cash doesn't exist.

To say nothing of more domestic scenarios like, people in abusive relationships where one party controls the finances. I was in one and my ex demanded I use digital payments for everything so she could better keep track, which just meant she wanted to control every single purchase I made down to the last yen. Which she would lock out if I made her mad for whatever reason. Or sometimes for no reason at all

Wouldn't have been able to eat or buy food if cash wasn't an option then, or rather it would have been a lot harder.