These are all run by people with migrant backgrounds, who perhaps due to a distrust of authority brought from their homelands, or perhaps to a wish to avoid the taxman, seem most keen on cash. There is widespread concern in Sweden about the shadow economy, which is being targeted as part of the “Safer Malmö” project.

This is the problem with groups pushing for ‘cashless’ societies. They see cash as emblematic of crime or as this unclean thing. Sovereignty is the issue. The rest are more or less distractions.