Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world?

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• Yermaw@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I know its not the same thing, but we’ve completely done away with the barter system. Way back in the days of yore people would be swapping things for things, and then money came along and they were like “whaaaat you want to take my stuff in exchange for a few little discs?” And now it’s totally normal.

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  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We have not completely done away with the barter system. It is just less visible.

    I worked on a farm for a while that grew vegetables, and bartered some of those vegetables for other products from neighboring businesses. We got a pallet of apples in exchange for squashes from a local orchard, and seconds frozen pizzas in exchange for veg for pizza toppings from a local restaurant. We even bartered labor. There was someone who came in every week and spent a few hours cleaning and organizing the tomato cooler in exchange for some tomatoes that were on their way out.

    In each case it was mutually beneficial for all parties to exchange in kind without using cash.

    So while bartering is not common, it still exists.

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    • CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve been at some festivals where the bartering system was alive and well! People would trade beer for camping chairs or a volleyball for some duct tape. Good times :)

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• WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The less people use physical cash, the less it gets produced. Eventually governments/mints will say “hey, you aren’t using this much anymore, so we’ll stop recognising it”, or something along those lines.

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  • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That will never happen

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    • WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I hope you’re right.

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