Think about a bank run today compared to 2008:

No physical lines outside the banks of customers taking out their money. They have smartphones today and can take out their money in seconds.

That means banks would close suddenly, probably overnight while we're sleeping. The next morning, people wake up to see their banking apps don't work -- they've been deactivated to prevent a bank run.

People can't access their money and the branches are closed too.

Oh, and "to save the economy", your balance has been cut 20% in order to bail out the bank.

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Cut in real value but they would be more likely to print the difference than take it

there was online banking in 2008 too

There was, but not smartphone apps. It was desktop based, more cumbersome, and not many people had it.

Today, almost all customers have it and could all clean out a bank within 1 minute of big news. The banks won't allow that.