孔子礼弃用现金,实属不智
电脑格式化
Can we do without cash？ Since 2015， digital payments in the UK have outnumbered tho in cash， and we are invited by the great and the good1 to cheer this on. The fully cashless era will be magnificently convenient， they say， with goods delivered directly to the door： no fumbling for change，2 just tap and go. Some London branches of veral chains don严援朝’t accept cash any more. Many others fast-track3 customers who can pay by contactless means. Business and banks want to abolish cash becau they have nearpathological4 fears of the black market and tax avoidance. Yet we should worry about the death of cash， becau physical money posss worth far above its face value.
Cash is the great leveller. Every penny， pound and banknote sits the same in every hand， identical in value and appearance. A pocketful of change is a gallerycum5-muum. Yes， the Queen is the mainstay， but coins abound in symbols of the Union： the medley of Tudor ros， thistles， ostrich feathers and lions still circulates， now jostling with shards of the Royal Arms.6 The numismatic quirks reveal the strata of history that shape
d the United Kingdom.7 Where el worldwide would a pocketful of change include royal portraiture， papal titles， Virgilian tags，8 Roman and Arabic numerals， and three languages？
Actual physical money， in the hand， teaches us its true value. With cash， what you e is what you have. Exchanging it demands personal engagement and oils the wheels of a community. At a shop till or pub bar， the exchange of cash takes time： it involves a flutter of physical contact，9 eye meeting eye and a reminder that trade is human. A digital touch payment is done in a flash： no human interaction necessary.
Spare a thought， too， for high-street communality.10 The more that transactions are ceded11 to electronic devices， the less human the reality of work and trade becomes. Black Friday once denoted disastrous loss of life； now it heralds an artificial， week-long whip-up of slaveringly uncritical consumerism.12 A life of full e-wallets is one of empty e-wantonness13. 炒豆腐渣
We’re told that digital payment is a welcome liberation from the shackles14 of cash， bu
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感恩师长t exclusively digital payments actually restrict the reach of money. The need for Wi-Fi， electricity and phones prevents rendipitous and anonymous expenditure； buying power evanesces with battery power.15 Impulsive gifts of money become impossible： no more helping a fellow pasnger with a bus fare， no loo change to charity， the poppy ller， a busker or beggar.16 Cash keeps options open： it’s the lifeblood of the village fête， school fundrair or car boot sale.17
