Hardly any more cash in everyday life – diepresse.com

On the website of the European Central Bank, there is an explanation under the entry « Bargeld », which can be easily understood as an advertising text. Among other things, it says that cash is the only means of payment for which you do not need a third party. Not even electricity. Not that someone would use the evil word blackout, but there are immediately pictures in the head. People who pay with a 20-euro note in the dark at the bakery, while the noses with the ATM cards split flat on the windows. In addition, stands there, protect a cash from cybercrime and you are preserving his anonymity. The latter in particular also appreciate the cyber criminals who looted the bank account in front of it.

Nevertheless, I myself am one of the two thirds of the Europeans who use cash less and less. Actually there are only three areas where I absolutely need cash. With the physiotherapist, the psychotherapist and at the weekly market. All three are rare enough, so I usually only notice on the way there that I have no cash in my pocket. Therefore, I did not even notice that the ATMs died of the bank branches. Width, long incidental roads, where you used to find an ATM on every corner of the house, are now without. Instead, their dirty brothers shoot out of the ground everywhere. Hardly a cell phone shop or quick snack that you don’t hang on. Shable, dirty and daring, they look like bandits that pull the colt as soon as you approach them. Woe to the one who has no other choice! If the cash continues to go downhill, you will soon have to watch a dealer on Karlsplatz.