Old man stuck in his ways vent

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by paul

I sympathize with Gary. But you should know, it could be much worse. I recently visited China, and they are completely cashless. You have to buy EVERYTHING (groceries, restaurant meals, bus tickets, cabs), with a special app on a smart phone. To make matters worse, you can only download the app if you have a local Chinese smart phone. And you must link the app to a Chinese bank account. This obviously works out real great for tourists. As far as I can tell, there are only two work-arounds for tourists. You can either travel with a tour group where the tour company pays for everything, or you borrow the phone of a local (and figure out a way to reimburse them).

Unfortunately there's a growing push to move to a Digital Dollar here in the USA. Fight it with everything you have, as it's basically a financial surveillance tool monitored by the federal govt. It would cripple our hobby, in addition to many more serious evils...

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/inves...igital-dollar/