>ripped $20 bill
This is a hilarious problem to anyone who has been using polymer bills for nearly a decade.
This is a hilarious problem to anyone who has been using polymer bills for nearly a decade.
Once it has a small tear, it very easily tears the rest of the way.
Once it is folded it never goes flat again.
They also feel really cheap.
I thought that at first.
Now the old ones feel really cheap to me. I guess you just get used to it
-Scandinavia
https://www.wired.com/2012/07/wikileaks-visa-blockade/
Blanket, universal surveillance as well as zero-burden-of-proof government point-and-click seizure/disablement is the cost.
You cannot have a free society without a payment system that the government or a few large banks do not have the ability to arbitrarily censor, even temporarily.
You can not communicate or organize anonymously (for example, for political organization or government corruption investigative journalism) when every payment you need to do so is logged as a matter of course. These activities are not common, but essential to a free society.
The ability to transact in things the government does not like, without their knowing about it, is a cornerstone of freedom. Many other human rights crumble if you do not preserve it.