Quote from: figmentofmyass on December 15, 2018, 09:31:18 PM

Quote from: The Pharmacist on December 13, 2018, 07:53:44 PM

For better or worse, a cashless world is coming. Such a thing would have been unheard of in the 1800s, and boy how times have changed.

is it though? i've heard the fearmongering about sweden, but i don't see anything like that happening in the USA. cash economies are still really prevalent here. where i live, gas prices are lower if you're paying with cash vs card and most people i know still use cash (at least sometimes).

Here's a little article I read just now when looking in to your opinion.

https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/payment-method-statistics-1276.php

From this it would seem there's some truth in what you're saying, cash use is dwindling but it is still very very prevalent.

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According to the 2016 Federal Reserve Payments Study, noncash payments increased at an annual rate of 5.3 percent (3.4 percent in value), between 2012 and 2015.

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A 2016 Gallup poll also found that far fewer Americans are using cash than five years previously. Only 10 percent reported using cash for all their purchases, down from 19 percent in 2011

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But still, only 12 percent say they never use cash, hardly changed from the 10 percent who said the same in 2011.