Now you can't get your money out the bank.

[Scrumpy]

There will always be cash while we have pensioners...
The next generation of (pensioners) will know how to cope without cash..

[klondike]

cash is a natural phenomenon (well coins are) and if the king doesn't make it, someone else will, guaranteed.

They already do. Bitcoin and the like but it is rather dodgy I think. There is gold but that's high denomination. It could eventually go back to barter I suppose.

[Dextrous63]

Money is a way of exchanging numbers.  If numbers are kept in computers then that is beneficial and quicker to deal with (unless of course the computers don't break down and systems aren't hacked).  Cash transactions allow for untraceable exchanges to take place.

Pros and cons.

[klondike]

Barter is inconvenient but untaxable. Cash is to a large degree untaxable too. 

Salaries are taxable and as they are through PAYE unavoidable. Some payments can be outside of PAYE and so can avoid a lot of (sometimes all) tax. The richer you are the less your pocket gets picked.

[Michael Rolls]

Money is a way of exchanging numbers.  If numbers are kept in computers then that is beneficial and quicker to deal with (unless of course the computers don't break down and systems aren't hacked).  Cash transactions allow for untraceable exchanges to take place.

Pros and cons.

A couple of years back TSB had computer problems. For three weeks I had no access to my money. Thankfully, TSB weren't my chief bank - and I have since dropped them

[klondike]

I have since dropped them

[Dextrous63]

A couple of years back TSB had computer problems. For three weeks I had no access to my money. Thankfully, TSB weren't my chief bank - and I have since dropped them

I remember hearing about that (or similar) Three weeks is way too long.  IIRC, some people got into all sorts of difficulty due to bills and mortgages being paid late as well as some having to borrow food and cash from neighbours just to get by.

[Raven]

I don't care what anyone says but, cash is king. Especially in this tech world, where systems crash and cash doesn't. 

[Michael Rolls]

absolutely

[Ashy]

I think it's easier to send cash to yourself through Western Union than it is to get it out of the bank. They want to know the ins and out of, well you know. A colleague told me they wouldn't let him pay it in without identification. There is no doubt that the ruling elite want to abolish cash, but I would advise them that it can't be done; cash is a natural phenomenon (well coins are) and if the king doesn't make it, someone else will, guaranteed.

I recently wanted some cash, more than a cash machine allows me (!). I have some difficulty in finding a physical branch of my bank and my account is not registered to any branch, so I asked them if I could cash a cheque to myself at another bank, and the answer is: no.

So, as I have an account with Western Union and send money abroad to family, I thought I would send some to myself as an experiment.

NO they wouldn't give it to me without some obscure verification process that I couldn't follow even if I wanted to, even though I presented my passport to the agent. In fact they wanted to know the ins and outs of an aquatic biped's digestive tract.

But I can send to someone else and they don't have this hassle.

[Mups]

What a palaver.   How ridiculous, Ashy.