Our people should try living in modern Germany we so adore. They are decade or two behind with any electronic payments and I'm talking living in Munich's Bogenhausen (like Prague 4), not some village in north. I'm deeply bothered since I moved there and saw that clusterfuck of fax (!!!) using cash only culture. Czechs are greedy controlling meddling assholes. Oh wait, Germany here we come.

It is truly amazing to see people fight for the card companies. That said I'm starting to be the weird one among my friends who still uses cash everywhere. So from my experience this is a real thing, these people really want to pay with their phones/watches and they don't care if there is a company in the middle of this taxing everyone. It is invisible, but the mom and pop biz that doesn't want to pay the price is an easy scapegoat.

The irony while everyone wants to tax the rich, and then it turns into full-Karen attack against your local pub.

(All at the same time when government spends the tax money to support the Michelin restaurant owners)

I thought I heard that slovakia recently passed a law that cash must always be accepted. I remember the auto reporting to the tax office on the receipt, but is the same attitude towards cash there? I'm surprised you didn't use this opportunity to make your czech crown is used less than bitcoin joke 😀

Cash and digital cash (Monero) is the way of freedom.

It's neither backwards nor the future. It's just liberty the establishment wants to eradicate from the serfs. Hence we have this mainstream media feudal (backwards) narrative.

Interesting point in the whole heated debate to me was that without the EU law forbidding the businesses to charge extra fees for the use of credit cards, there wouldn't be any heated debate, and everyone would peacefully choose whatever payment method they prefer at whatever costs.

In US it's not uncommon to have the credit card charges added to the bill, or SMBs commonly offering discounts when paying in cash. Then the customers also learn what is preferred, and courteous to do, and they can choose to follow it unless the cost of carrying cash around is too high for them.

I'm surprised I didn't use it too!

In Slovakia people pay with cards too, I'm the weird one.

In Europe they can't add credit card charges to the bill. It's what the credit card cartel enfoces in the contracts.

There are often unofficial discounts for paying with cash, especially if you don't want a receipt.