I wouldn't expect that to even last in our lifetimes - as a practical matter at least.
The war on cash is real, and if you pay attention on HN and other places the social zeitgeist sees this as a good thing.
The war on cash is real, and if you pay attention on HN and other places the social zeitgeist sees this as a good thing.
Next thing you're going to tell me that not everyone is a programmer...
I know plenty of people who've never heard of HN who use CC and Debit Cards religiously. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to someday completely move away from physical cash. From a waste standpoint it makes sense, why waste money/physical resources just to create fiat currency when it can all be digitized?
(more seriously: I think people are going for a substantial reduction in practical feasibility more than anything. The inefficiency of barter is unlikely to affect that.)
Given the fanaticism of the gun debate, if laws don’t prohibit the medium of exchange, you can bet that anything from scrap copper plumbing and wire, to lumber, to livestock would be accepted in some circles, in order to breathe life into a market with enough demand.
My tin foil millinery habit is entirely unrelated.