I see cash as an absolute win
As someone who worked in shops for many years, cash is disgusting and should be burned!
Think about how digital movies and games are routinely locked and blocked. Do you want the government to be able to do that to all of your liquid cash?
I get your point, but if your government is already screwing up the economy - hoarding physical cash is no better. See African countries and India’s 2016 cash crisis: massive queues at the bank for worthless paper.
It’s not about hoarding cash. It’s about privacy and surveillance. Cash is the only truly anonymous means of payment.
Believe me, these are the least of Japan’s problems.
Tbh I’d say they’re way less cash-based than believe to be. Obviously just my experience but most places take visa or Suica from Tokyo to Hiroshima to Kanazawa and everything in between.
But a lot of small Japanese business, particularly in food/drinks, do not. PayPay and such are making some inroads in that space, but I know bar owners here who got rid of it as it wasn’t worth their take/fees.
war crime denial
Unit 731 intensifies
Btw don’t look that up unless you got a stomach for actual torture, rape, murder, cruelty, and dehumanization of men, women, and kids.
dehumanization of men, women, and kids
Do you mean logs?
They really still use floppy disks?
No, not publicly. The last manufacturer of diskettes in Japan (Sony, I believe) shut down production several years ago.
Conversely, there is still infrastructure In America that requires 5" floppies and Windows 3.11 installs or else some critical system will fail.
Society at large in both countries no longer uses them.
I used to work in manufacturing. One place used the Japanese standard of manufacturing with paper based progress gates and faxing copies to other sections. They also paid cash for any outside contracts. The whole system worked flawlessly. Those negatives are not as bad as they seem.
That’s incredible that business contracts are paid in cash. Did they just waltz in with a suitcase filled with cash and count everything together?
Cash can also include checks and other negotiable instruments
Pretty common in China too. I’d regularly make deposits and people would come in with cases of cash and deposit alongside the rest of us.
Sometimes they’d use the cash deposit ATMs, and the rest of us online would be like f****** okay just take 10 minutes there inserting stack after stack of cash. cool of you
Deutsche:
Why is cash society a bad thing???
I’m not against cash, but being cash only would be a nightmare.
Cash is filthy, and it takes time to have to look through and work out (for all stakeholders). It costs money to secure it as well. It wears out over time and has to be minted.
Cash society is better than a card one for homeless people
Oh yea we hate cash society here. We all really want the corporations to know exactly what we use all our money for, it’s great!
Excluding bullet trains, these are just bazinga-brained Disney world attractions. Could have put mixed use zoning on the front, and toxic grindset work culture on the back.
If you’re gonna put mixed zoning, put tearing down houses after 20 years on the other.
Do people outside Hexbear know what “bazinga brained” means? I kinda don’t think they do.
barzoople brain
Probably not, but it’s also shorthand for something everybody understands, even the bazinga-brained, so it’s not hard to clarify
I got what it meant the first time I heard it so I figured it was fine to use.
Also racism and misogyny.
People in the US still don’t believe me that there are DVD rental stores everywhere in Japan. Although the wildest low tech thing I’ve seen though is one time I had to go to a rural post office out in Gifu prefecture and the workers there had honest to goodness abacuses instead of cash registers.
The use of hanko seals also kinda baffles me.