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Oliver Schick in reply to @pascalo

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This is Germany, my friend. :)

Personally I hate carrying cash. It's bulky and inconvenient and I prefer to swipe my phone and be done with it. Happy for the surcharge if there is one.

I don't care about personal convenience. (I'm well aware some people find handling cash hard and for them cards obviously make sense.) I prefer cash because it's not instant data collection, doesn't feed international payment system companies like PayPal that cream something off every transaction, and is lower-tech.

I think Germany has a pretty large cash-in-hand shadow economy.

Are there any countries that don't?

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pascalo in reply to @Oliver Schick

I don't care about personal convenience

I mean, that's exactly the backwards part about much of German society.

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lynx in reply to @pascalo

Gave up long ago when Germans went to South America to avoid the immigrants. Remember the Nazis doing the same, after being evicted from Europe and enjoying fake passports

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