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DAE know Sweden is almost totally cashless? The stat I saw last week broke my brain
I was reading a piece on the Riksbank site about how less than 10% of Swedes used cash for their last purchase, and most banks there stopped handing out paper money at branches. So now I picture my aunt in Stockholm tipping a street musician by tapping her phone on a reader, which feels wild after growing up watching my dad count bills at the gas station. What really got me was that some churches there take card donations for the offering plate, because the collection baskets were coming up empty. Has anyone on here been to a country like that, where you literally cannot hand a person a $5 bill?
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emeryj669d ago
Heard a podcast last year about a town in Denmark where the bakery stopped taking coins, and the host said his kid had never even held a paper bill. That part stuck with me more than the church thing, because it means a whole generation just won't know what cash feels like. Makes me wonder if a power outage or phone glitch would leave everyone standing around with nothing to pay with.
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