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by l0b0 2480 days ago
People will still do illegal/subversive/socially unacceptable things and be paid for them. So a "cashless" society would generate a massive demand for alternative forms of currency. There are already plenty of those, including digital ones, so this might in the long run be disastrous for national currencies. Which would be interesting but also disastrous for a lot of people in the meantime.