http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-24/banks-are-scheming-dominate-future-cashless-society Summary: The Big Banks and the Deep State are attempting to eliminate cash to track spending patterns for big data as well as to control the means of spending.
color me in as one that will boycott those establishments that adhere to the cashless future. the mafia on steroids getting a piece of the action on the buyers and sellers end, and taking a 3%+ cut of the countries GDP for the accounting privilege
They sell the consumer data to research firms and whoever else for whatever purposes they see fit. This all ends up going to hedge fund managers and probably the government. As Artificial Intelligence evolves the ramifications will be scarier.
Nowadays, the way people make it rain is by paying with a premium credit card like Visa Infinite or Amex platinum
