FOR:
1. Barmaids, cab drivers and street acrobats, for whom (drinking) money in metallic form simply feels much more money.
2. Even if it’s “only” baht: There’s something about hoarding a bundle of thousands in your wallet while on vacation in Thailand that…
3. A Twint here, something ordered online there – who can keep track of their budget?
4. Anyway: impersonal, job-destroying, temptation to shoplift… Data-sucking self-scan payment points are the Orwellian nightmare of the 21st century. Century. Paying for a lumpy roll with a card is like sweeping the crumbs off the tabletop with a pressure washer.
5. …and if the power goes out?
AGAINST:
1. Twint, e-banking and online services give us tons of time (whether we use it wisely or fritter it away on our smartphones is up to us).
2. Because the more digital the lifestyle, the more comatose the analog staff at the post office counter or supermarket checkout. This is how reverse congruence works.
3. Maestro cards can be blocked. Lost hundred notes do not.
4. How many of our favorite pants have been dented by that damn change? 5 cents, 20 cents, 50 cents… by the bagful!
5. But you can bet that the coins are missing from the ticket machine exactly when it’s really, really urgent?
