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by Fredrik_Andersson March 19, 2012 11:22 PM EDT
Guys. I live in Sweden, and this is totally bogus. The article is a PERFECT example of how you create a trend in the media by picking only the details you like. Bjorn Ulvaeus says something, and you pick up on that. A church installs a credit-card reader, and you pick up on that. Etc.
I have NEVER seen a church accept credit cards. This must be the only one. But you don't see the journalist write about the many thousands of other churches. And he doesn't write about the tens of thousands of businesses that accept cash.
You see only a few small details. And since that's all you see, and Sweden is far away, you think they show the reality. But here in Sweden, I have never in my life heard of "Sweden moving toward cashless economy." Ridiculous. Of course we will keep using cash.
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