The poster, @etcmike, is well into his 50's. I am certainly not looking forward to a cashless society, but that is the direction TPTB seem to pushing society. Besides the impacts you mention, the point of my post is how the less fortunate may need to adapt to a cashless society. TPTB decisions, no matter how noble, always seem to impact the less fortunate the most. To me it seems that actions not thought through are likely to have unintended consequences.

Another example of how a cashless, digital society will affect a segment of society is coin collecting. I am a coin collector. In a cashless, digital society will the US mint still produce coins? They may simply for commemorative purposes or bullion coins. I don't know. But a cashless, digital society will impact coin collecting. It may make a coin collector's collection more valuable.

A cashless, digital society is bound to impact different segments of society differently. Now is the time to consider those impacts and decide if that is the direction we want to go as a society. Who knows, we may have no choice but to accept a cashless, digital society. In which case, we must look at how we need to adapt.

Thanks for your feedback,

Steem on,
Mike