2005: The Death of Cash (597 hits)
Category: Business & FinancialRating: -0.2 on 16 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by twentyseventy (View user info) at 2005-05-10 17:14:28 EDT
This year is officially the year that using cash to pay for purchases begins to die out. Think about it. EVERYONE these days is accepting credit and debit: Taco Bell, McDonalds, Starbucks, etc.
A year ago you would have been hard pressed to make that midnight Wendy's run without any cash. Now, you just show the plastic and they'll even hold the debit number pad out the drive through window for you.
Yes, checks have been around forever, and so have debit/credit cards. However, it's not until you can pay for a $2.64 hot chocolate at Starbucks with your card and not get scowled at. Hell, it's EASIER for the cashier that way, no more stupid change.
This also brings up the fact that less physical money handling brings less tips some workers. Whatever. If Fat Tony's taught me anything it's that many people don't even deserve them.
Soon we'll bypass the whole debit/credit phase and go straight to paying for thing with our cell phones, like in Japan.
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Oh yeah, fuck that first post of mine, I was quite new to uber and deserved to get my ass ripped like it did.
User Reviews
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2005-08-29 03:17:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
I like cash and don't approve of this sentiment.
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2005-07-25 02:13:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-05-10 19:14:25 (#)
Ranking: 0
Besides that, this post was utterly inane. After a year this is the best you have?
^^^^^^^^^^
As usual, I have to agree with him on this.....and on the matter of credit cards.
Try using your Platinum American Express Card, when you're stuck in the middle of the
fucking Kalahari Desert or Northern Territory and your out of gas or food!!!
Submitted by Zoidberg (user info) at 2005-05-11 11:54:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
blah blah blah people don't use cash as much anymore.
My, that was insightful. Any comments on insurgent violence in Iraq next? Perhaps something that cuts right to the heart of the issue like "There is insurgent violence in Iraq"
Submitted by The_Caged_Bird (user info) at 2005-05-11 02:53:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I have to agree with williamson, I have been serving here in Japan for three years and I've been all over but I have never see a vending machine like that. I'm a fat fucker too, so you know I visit the vending machines every chance I get.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-05-10 23:35:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Gold replaced bartered goods
Cash replaced gold
Information is now replacing cash...
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-05-10 19:14:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I've never heard/seen the mobile phone (or as you Americans call them: cellphone) thing in Japan.
Besides that, this post was utterly inane. After a year this is the best you have?
Submitted by nitty34 (user info) at 2005-05-10 18:52:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Holy shit, your first post was awful so you waited nearly a year, posted again, and apologized?
Thank God. I bet a bunch of people were thinking about you and your first post constantly, and wondering when you would resurface to make good.
As for this post: what Shlongy said.
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2005-05-10 18:10:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Shoulda left it a month and made it a clean year.
Submitted by strider (user info) at 2005-05-10 18:08:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
but bloody Carl's Junior is now charging $0.50 for the Debit card convienence, the jerks!
Submitted by DarthFaded (user info) at 2005-05-10 18:00:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
666 Mark of the beast....
Oh yeah and this post blows.
Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2005-05-10 17:58:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
fair enough
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-05-10 17:40:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Don't apologize yet. This one ain't much better.
Submitted by FATMANTPK (user info) at 2005-05-10 17:31:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I felt guilty the first time I used my debit card for Taco Bell. BUt each time afterwards it got easier and easier on my conciense
Submitted by Darshiscool (user info) at 2005-05-10 17:30:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
long live plastic, until the cellphone thing finally gets to America
cash blows.
Submitted by Yes (user info) at 2005-05-10 17:30:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
... i had to use my debit card to pay $.79 for a drink this morning. It's a brave new world out there.
Submitted by The_Fan (user info) at 2005-05-10 17:21:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I have a boner