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> Imagine homeless people. You wouldn't be able to give them money.

This is incorrect on all levels. Electronic payments between bank accounts have existed for decades. Banks in many countries now support instant payments using email/phone numbers. There are QR based payment methods which do the same thing. There has even been a special jacket invented to accept contactless:

https://www.tsip.co.uk/blog/2019/2/19/introducing-helping-he...

> Imagine trade in place without data connection.

What, like an airplane? Where many airlines no longer even accept cash on the plane?

parent shortcake27 3 years ago

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