[FatherofFive]

Eliminate paper money and you put drug dealers and strip clubs out of business. There would be no beggars on intersections. The underground economy collapses.

I only use cash to pay my car mechanic (he gives a cash discount) and to leave tips at restaurants. Tips in cash are never reported as income, and I like to keep as much money as possible out of the hand of the government leviathan.

[Vigilanteman]

Rather than disappearing, the demand for paper currency is rising faster than inflation or population . . .

Create a socialist economy where the government has to steal a little bit of every transaction and the underground economy grows and thrives. It ain't rocket science.

[cuban leaf]

There would be no beggars on intersections.

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This. It was always interesting to see the look on their face when I said, “Do you take plastic, cause that’s all I got.” One young one quipped back, “Good one!” :-D

I was actually approached in a parking lot just yesterday by a beggar and gave him that line. He stared at me like he was rebooting.