Europe
Europe community on dbzer0. Intended to be a place to discuss European news, politics, or just general topics from a European perspective. Since this is on dbzer0 expect the community to lean more leftist-anarchist but a wide range of views are accepted here (within reason).
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Swede here, yep this has been the message from the government.
The reason why we pushed so hard into cashless business in the first place was a multipart reason.
In the early 2000s cash transports were semi regularly robbed, these transports were done in armored vans, but without police escorts or even armed personal.
It was a regular bit on the news, "another high value transport hit by robbers and blown up."
Then businesses started transitioning from cash to reduce the risk of robberies.
Then the government started pushing harder toward a cashless society.
Services like Klarna and Swish (Swedish version of Cash App), combined with electronic ID using BankID (ID service owned by the major banks in Sweden, terrible onwership, but a decent execution)
And now with the increased threats against Sweden, we need to migrate back to using cash more.
I have reserve cash in my wallet, I have carried it for about a year, but have not used actual cash in any regular capacity for more than 15 years or so...
The really annoying thing here is that here in Sweden, carrying cash is now so unusual that it can be seen as suspicious by the police.
That is fucking ridiculous, but it is a reality.
Also Swedish, and I haven't seen cash in years. I don't even know what our current banknotes look like.
Kika gärna på riksbankens webbsida, de nya är ganska fina, men känns som en ny valuta jämfört med de gamla:
https://www.riksbank.se/sv/betalningar--kontanter/sedlar--mynt/sedlar/giltiga-sedlar/
Jag saknar Selma och Linné....
Det är sant, de är väldigt fina. På ett sätt lite synd att man inte har behov för dem längre, men Swish osv. är ju så jäkla mycket smidigare.