Subject: Re: First we lost the telegraph
I don't really think Americans are still fixated on cash. I see a lot of people paying with phones, credit cards reluctantly, and try to find a young person primarily using cash. The only time I have bona fide *needed* much cash in the past few years was driving up the eastern seaboard, where for whatever Jerseyan reasons, one needs cash (not having an E-ZPass myself) to pay those tolls on the Jersey turnpike and vicinity. Checks? I might write 4-5 a year, usually to trades/repair guys, but more and more of them take credit cards...or even Venmo or such.