DovertheRoad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For lot's of reasons, the powers that be would > seem to be keen on us moving to a cashless > society. I'm already carrying way less cash than a > few years back with contactless etc. If you think > about it cashless basically hands control to the > state if it chose to exercise it. So...big picture > is much more worrying than the convenience > benefits. Not sure I see how it hands control to the state? All of the payment backbone is run by private companies? If anything cashless is less controlled by the state?