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Everyone is starting to get a real good lesson in why cash is important.fax, eh

I agree that fax machines belong into the past, but cash? I'd like to be able to pay even if the internet/power goes down, thank you very much.

Cash will have relevance as long as internet and cloud failures are still an ongoing thing .. both for lovers of privacy and viable fallbacks as required.

Of interest, today in Australian media:

Why cash has made an unexpected comeback in Australia: new study - https://theconversation.com/why-cash-has-made-an-unexpected-...

which includes figures that show while only 8% of Australian transactions are cash (by some metric, see article) 33% (a third) of the population fully supports keeping cash on.

And that is fine and I do the same.

In Germany in many places you can only pay with cash.

Cash allows for freedom and not being tracked by organisations.

Many European countries have learnt hard lesson about state protection police agencies.

A lesson that younger generations seem keen to forget and live through by themselves, because our stories aren't real enough.