What is societies obsession with carrying cash?

Cash is king

Long as they are not paying in cents, i doubt they have a problem, OP just came across annoying customer who did just that so I don't blame him, it would annoy me too.

Nice username btw 🤣

Well put, don't need everyone knowing what you spend your money on.

OP is exaggerating a bit. I can be that guy that searches all my pockets to find change to save splitting a decent size note (50 though not a 20) and no way does the worst of my bumbling take 10 minutes, any more than 1 minute and I'd pay with the 50.

If I've a right load of change to get rid of I put it in the self service checkouts in Dunnes which I am sure are set up to be so slow at counting change in order to try and put people off putting change in them.

Cash isn't king, cash is privacy. Governments hate privacy.

.. and we all know that the OP is a government spook

Cards are fine until the system stops working, then your in a mess, I'd always try to have 50 cash on me

Revolut literally tells you instantly where you spent your money and better, they give you a breakdown at the end of the year, where and on what you're spending your money. This nonsense of you don't realise your spending when you tap is just that, nonsense

A large majority of folk crying about the demise of cash are tax dodging or up to some other off radar activity. Thankfully the state are getting better at making these sh1te bags sing to the same tune as all the rest of us.. want this.. show you're tax compliant and produce financial affairs, want that.. show you're tax compliant and produce your financial affairs

They're not crying about no longer having paper currency in their pocket, they're crying because they can no longer diddle the system

cash is flexibility, convenience for the customer/client.

the reason as I mentioned in one of the previous threads on this… that businesses don’t like cash are the extra efforts and cost to handle it.

cashless businesses won’t pass on that saving to clients so fuçk them quite frankly. They’ll just take more profit.

I'm pretty sure my BoI account doesn't update that quickly.

Its not about not realising how much you have spent its all about knowing how much you have to spend. I don't need to go fiddling around with a smart phone to know I've €50 in my pocket.

Yeah I don't buy this knowing how much I have to spend lark.

I know without checking my pockets, my phone or my bank balance that if I make 500 in wages a week, then I have 500 to spend. I don't need a filthy crumpled piece of paper in my pocket to remind me of this. Likewise I don't need that money in my pocket to save me incase I forget myself and suddenly try to spend 20,000. Such utter nonsense

I encounter these wheeler dealer cash kings daily and they really boil my piss. If covid done one thing, it showed these idiots up for the fools they are.. when the state stepped in with instant supports for businesses.. we'll pay the wages if you show us what wages you've been paying. The cash kings were left in the corner like sulking children cause their cute hoorism, boys off the books, cash in hand ways meant they couldn't avail of any of these supports... and they had the gall to cry about it! Greedy simpletons. Can't have it both ways

Yeah, using the card really helps you feel the sting of spending when you see your balance going down. Not like with cash where you can just throw out a note and barely notice