{"id":62774,"date":"2017-08-04T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T10:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/seriously-why-do-we-still-use-cash-jenny-colgan\/"},"modified":"2017-08-04T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T10:32:09","slug":"seriously-why-do-we-still-use-cash-jenny-colgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/seriously-why-do-we-still-use-cash-jenny-colgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously, why do we still use cash? | Jenny Colgan"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFive hundred years on from the Reformation, the novelist votes to consign all that tinny, grubby money festering in our purses to historyCash needs reforming. But this isn\u2019t about how much money different people have through no fault of their own, and how rubbish that is. Obviously if anyone had\u00a0even the vaguest answer to that we wouldn\u2019t currently be: a) fighting for our glorious liberated Brexit uplands; b) recycling our post-Brexit string by candlelight (delete as to personal preference).No, the problem is simply how outdated it is as a physical system. I can just about appreciate the aesthetic value of a 20 pence piece, but seriously, what\u2019s it for? It can\u2019t buy anything, and there are four even smaller coins to come after that, including the frankly horrifying five pence piece, which for some reason was designed to be too small to be picked up by human fingers larger than a six-year-old\u2019s. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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