No one uses cash anymore. There simply is no need for it when you can just simply tap something and everything else is automatic. No more trying to come up with the optimal combination of notes and coins to pay £17.69, or worse waiting for the person at the checkout counter trying to figure out how much to give me back on my tenner, fiver, two pound and two fifty pence coins, and asking me if I don’t have another tenner, but me refusing because it would result in too much loose change in my pocket.
It almost seems ludicrous that we once bartered for goods with physical mediums of exchange and lest we forget, we also had to plan an entire sequence of daily activities with the right amount of cash we took out, from a machine not so close to our home. Now, life is easy, it’s all accounted for somewhere, and we just go about our lives with the trusted beeping sound of a machine or green arrow acknowledging our every transaction.
That being said, there is allegedly more cash around now than there ever was back to the beginning of time. The question is where has all this physical money gone, who still uses it, what is really going on in this world of numbers and digits, and can they really now track everything we are doing, where we are, from what we are spending our money on, and where has all that data gone anyway? Facebook? Do you take cash?
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