“When does the power go out anymore? I mean really. I grew in the 70s when the power seemed to go out every other storm, and hit most of the city for enough hours to start worrying about food in the freezer. My last blackout was a couple of months ago, hit about 2 square miles, lasted about an hour. Last serious blackout was over 15 years ago, that lasted most of the day, but even then only took out 5 or 6 square miles, drive 2 miles in any direction no more blackout.”
And in those days we had the knowledge how to open a “cash box” and continue to do business for our customers. That knowledge is gone, no one can even do math and make change without the power and cash register to do it for them. Now if the power goes out forget it.
And now they turn off the power on purpose for many different reasons not even related to storms. And power shutdowns are going to become even more common as we overload the system with climate control and electric vehicle BS.
There are many forks to this issue of not having cash to exchange personally without the dependency on power, or the internet, let alone handing them the ability to just shut off the money switch...
And these days nobody needs those skills because the power doesn’t go out.
None of your “forks” matter. CASH IS DEAD. Has been for 40 years. You just aren’t willing to admit it to yourself. But the way you keep rolling around and around to other, not actually related issues, where you are also wrong, shows that even you know it on some level. You have no facts to counter it. Because the truth is there. The cashless society is already here, and you didn’t start fighting until you’d already lost.