Some of the comments here are so unbelievable but I guess I may fit into the more "hacker" part of Hacker News.
I absolutely can't stand this financial tracking. Nobody should. Cash sure is inconvenient, but at least try paying with gift cards or crypto like Monero, so many services support them.
If you're anti-tax more power to you, corrupt governments who launder EU funds don't deserve any more money.
I've heard several horror stories here about people getting deported and couldn't pay for education because their banks blocked them.
The credit card score system is absolutely dystopian and a foreign concept at least in my part of the EU. You increase your chances of getting doxxed by just having a credit card because all the credit score reporting is done publicly and exposes an enormous amount of data.
Never in my life have I ever walked into a store that doesn't accept cash.
Keep hearing talk about restricting cash payments. Never in my life will I or anyone I know comply with such a dystopian control of money.
There are lots of stores that don't accept cash. In the last 30 days I have been to nightclubs in both Las Vegas and Brooklyn that did not accept anything but card payments.
The only way you "don't comply" with such a thing is by leaving the party you just spent $1000 (oh, you can't buy plane tickets for cash) to fly to to see all your friends, because you literally can't buy a bottle of water without a card.
Also recall that many people are literally unable to obtain payment cards, as they are blacklisted by banks or lack the requisite documents to open an account. The banks maintain their financial equivalent of a no-fly list (also with no recourse to figure out why you're on it, or a way of getting off).
I absolutely can't stand this financial tracking. Nobody should. Cash sure is inconvenient, but at least try paying with gift cards or crypto like Monero, so many services support them.
If you're anti-tax more power to you, corrupt governments who launder EU funds don't deserve any more money.
I've heard several horror stories here about people getting deported and couldn't pay for education because their banks blocked them.
The credit card score system is absolutely dystopian and a foreign concept at least in my part of the EU. You increase your chances of getting doxxed by just having a credit card because all the credit score reporting is done publicly and exposes an enormous amount of data.
Never in my life have I ever walked into a store that doesn't accept cash.
Keep hearing talk about restricting cash payments. Never in my life will I or anyone I know comply with such a dystopian control of money.