Austria's conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer wants the right to use cash enshrined in the constitution, he told Austrian media in remarks published on Friday (4 August), an idea the far-right Freedom Party has been pushing for years.

Austria’s conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer wants the right to use cash enshrined in the constitution, he told Austrian media in remarks published on Friday (4 August), an idea the far-right Freedom Party has been pushing for years.

  • NuPNuA@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    Then this people that seek privacy can go and shop somewhere that does take cash to maintain it, but if the market shows that they’re not the majority they can’t expect every shop to cater to them. It’s like me expecting all restaurants to go fully veggie because I personally don’t eat meat.

      • NuPNuA@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        Which most of them do as the market has shown it’s worth it. Does the market show enough people want to keep paying cash because it seems to just be nutty conspiracy theorists on twitter moaning about it.

    • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Must be nice living in such a huge city that there are multiple stores for everything. Can’t even order online instead, since those shops also don’t take cash (obviously).

      • NuPNuA@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        To be fair, I order most products online anyway and there’s a big supermarket round the corner for food. When I do venture into London it’s great how much faster it is to use the trains, get a pint, pay for food, etc just tapping my phone on everything.