01-05-2025 18:47 via theguardian.com

Even gen Z are resorting to cash – and I'm clinging to my own handful of it | Gaby Hinsliff

Power outages, the needs of vulnerable people and a general descent into dystopia are all reasons to resist banks’ dream of a cashless societyOpening my wallet, I’m down to my last five dollars. Dog-eared leftovers from a foreign holiday that I keep forgetting to take to the bank, they have somehow ended up being the only physical money I always carry, now there are so few places to use the British folding stuff.Our village pub was for years a cash-only enterprise, possibly as a mean
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