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In Canada we got a solid reminder of the importance of cash when the Rogers outage took Interac and many credit card processing systems offline…
That says more about the disgusting state of Canadian infrastructure than in does about electronic payment. A lot of places could’t operate their POS at all without an internet connection.
That outage had nothing to do with Canadian infrastructure. It was caused by a maintenance upgrade that Rogers was doing.
Unless you’re saying everyone should have backup internet connections. I’d be surprised to learn if any country has that. Given the size of Canada, that’s a lot of work to get that in place.
The Robelus cartel is one of the things to be shameful of as a Canadian (though the US isn’t much better).
As someone who has been a network engineer, you’re completely ignorant if you think there’s anywhere on Earth that is not just a handful of stupid decisions away from a similar outage
Thats one of many times each year the card processing system (in full or in part) has gone down.
Though usually it doesn’t stay down as long as that one.
The powers that be will likely push for cashless society because it gives them more surveillance & control
If credit/debit cards were the norm and cash was invented today, it would likely be outlawed down because criminals/terrorists/child kidnappers will use if for nefarious purposes
No, it’s just more convenient to use credit or debit.
Such a stupid contrived Make-Believe concern. If there are too many places that only take card, it will create a niche for cash based merchants and merchants will fill that niche. Next?
If people had free access to their own money, then there would be too many protests.
You are not required to put money into an account with a financial institution, but it does make basically everything in life easier if you do.
Can you require your workplace to pay you in cash or something?
That will depend on the laws where you live.
Where I live, the employer needs to get permission to pay you electronically, and they can pay by cash, cheque, or direct deposit.
If you don’t consent to electronic means, they are likely going to pay you by cheque. You don’t need an account to cash cheques, it is just much more of a burden.
For those of you who don’t get it, I am referring to the habit the Canadian government has of freezing the bank accounts of protestors.
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