After the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck the coasts of Japan, one of the most important difficulties faced by the survivors was to buy their daily groceries. Most of them had left with their credit cards and phones but those proved to be...
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After the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck the coasts of Japan, one of the most important difficulties faced by the survivors was to buy their daily groceries. Most of them had left with their credit cards and phones but those proved to be useless in a post-disaster society. A few weeks after the tragedy, an old man was asked what he would have done differently to prepare from the evacuation “I wished I had packed a decent pair of shoes, my toothbrush … and some cash” he said. Here is why a cashless society can put us all in that same situation.
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