Subject: Re: First we lost the telegraph
I suspect the fixation in the US of using cash

When I came back from the Philippines in 2022, I gladly gave up needing cash. I love not having coins in my pockets. I still carried cash, but I didn't use it. My cash gets used up paying the lawn man or a handyman, or settling debts/gifts in the filipina system. Or I buy something through marketplace. Everything else is plastic. It was one of the adjustments I made coming back to the US, cash is king in the Philippines.