[joshfraser]

Every dollar bill in your wallet has trace amounts of cocaine on it. They probably spent some time tucked in some dancers g-string too. All money is "dirty". It's just a question of how many times it needs to trade hands before we collectively agree to treat it as "clean" again.

[dan-robertson]

Neither of the things you’ve described make money dirty. Just because a dollar bill comes into contact with cocaine (often in cash sorting machines in banks), it doesn’t mean that it is the proceeds of crime.

[cheeseomlit]

I think his point is that a sizable portion of physical cash is involved with crime, that's one of the benefits of using cash so it only stands to reason- Yet everybody still uses cash regardless. Though I'm sure this same argument will be used in the future to justify a transition to a cashless society where all transactions are traced

[arbitrage]

uhhhhh ... that's not what they're talking about. nobody really cares about cocaine and pubes on dollar bills.

[helsinkiandrew]

I care