[jsbdk]

Any comment that criticises the EU gets downvoted immediately here.

Link to a news piece commenting the new Spanish law: https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20210630/congrso-aprueba-ley-pr...

[forty]

I'm not really sure your comment was criticizing anything though, just stating fact. Whether this is good or bad is a matter of opinion. Personally I'm more than happy to see cash disappear since I think it's mostly useful for laundering money and tax avoidance.

[chrisco255]

It's useful for privacy, which is a basic human right.

It's useful if electronic systems go down. It's useful in an emergency situation. It's useful for donations. It's useful for instant settlement.

You're more than happy to give away your financial sovereignty and to take away your optionality because you think they'll collect more taxes from it?

[novok]

This kind of attitude usually comes from people who have not been prosecuted by their government or have not had a family history of it happening to their parents or grandparents. They probably trust their governments to an implicit degree. If you are escaping a 3rd world or 1st world shit hole and you are a target of an authoritarian, murderous regime, cash might be your only life line to get smuggled out of a country and retain your families life.

You don't necessarily want everything under the control of government because government has a repeated history of going really bad, very fast.

Some recent examples: Nazi Germany, Islamic Iran, Communist China, Vietnam, Pol Pot & Cambodia, Soviet USSR, Burma, etc