You may also recall my disdain for the Internal Revenue Service's taxpayer advocate, Nina E. Olson who is charged with identifying "the most serious problems encountered by taxpayers." She, at least officially, sees cash as an enemy, perhaps the utterest enemy of all.
You may also, also recall my annoyance at the Visa advertising campaign that bills the cards as the cool, hip, with-it alternative to that old school "cash" stuff. I've never thought too much of MasterCard's long-running campaign, but it sure beats the hell out of Visa.
Now it is like a god damned game of mole at the state fair: Monopoly, for Christ's sake, has come out with an Electronic Banking Edition:
Wheel and deal your way to a fortune even faster using debit cards instead of cash! All it takes is a card swipe for money to change hands. Now you can collect rent, buy properties and pay fines - with the touch of a button!You may have thought, previously, that my pro-cash stance was just about style, or some personal peculiarity, or something else. I'm more concerned with the all-credit-all-the-time nonsense as an assault on a part of our culture I hold dear, the previously mentioned cash economy.
Anyway, I think I'll go home and count my penny collection again. Bah humbug.
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I don't use credit cards, although in the states I used my Mastercard debit card pretty frequently. Here though, almost no one takes plastic, so you buy verything with cash. The largest bill is a 500 taka note, which is more or less equal to $7.00, so buying larger things gets to be a pain. I bought some stuff for the house a few weeks ago, rattan furniture that I had ordered, and I had to pay 14,000 in 500 taka notes.
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