beled_el_djinn | You get the picture... (Reply)

Looking at an average day for me, there is only one point during it where I actually need to have cash on me (oh Riverside, if only my charliecard covered parking too...) as pretty much everywhere I go accepts credit cards and atm cards. Seems like we might actually be on track for one of Gibson's predictions about nobody using actual cash for transactions. Not that this is all that disturbing or weird, but it did get me thinking this morning while wandering into work. As I made my way through Dartmouth St.'s panhandling gauntlet this morning, I got to wondering what is going to happen to all the homeless folks who beg for spare change as more and more people stop using cash.