When was the last time you thought about paying in cash?
by Elizabeth Lopatto from The Verge - All Posts on (#6DRX1)
Hugo Herrera / The Verge Last night, when I was settling up at the dive bar, I began thinking once again about the tradeoffs of technology. I was thinking about it because I paid in cash.
Post-pandemic, it seems that more people than ever are using credit cards for payments; they are now the vast majority of transactions, according to a report from Capital One. Not that my life is representative - I am a freak - but this bears out among my friends as well. I am frequently the only person carrying cash.
Some of this is just that I like cash; it inherently makes it easier for me to budget because I can't spend money I don't have. I also enjoy that it doesn't sign me up for stores' email lists. And - I did tell you I was a freak, didn't I? - there is very little in...