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by cmroanirgo 1415 days ago
Australia is not cashless. New notes and coins are minted regularly. I still pay using cash, and increasingly so. Never once, ever, has there been a problem paying with cash, nor do I expect there to be.

For those online services that only accept cards, you can buy a gift card from the local post office or a few other locations & use that.

What you describe is my dystopian nightmare.

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Can you please tell me why it is your dystopian nightmare? I had the opposite feeling.
> why

You are living somewhere where your actions are logged and made available to parties, and where people around you do not notice.