And they're spectacularly wrong. The idea of a cashless society is a dystopian one.

The main issue with this conversation is that people dismiss your concerns right off the bat.

I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe it is true that, at the end of the day, people like to be controlled. They like being told what to do.

Let's start from the beginning. The first thing we have to remember is that governments have the power to do everything and anything they want, if a good chunk of the population does nothing.

Friendly reminder, when it comes to political consent, passively doing nothing is the same as actively agreeing with certain policies. It produces the same result.

So when world governments did abysmal things during Covid, we learnt we things.

The first thing we learnt is that governments of supposedly democratic countries are capable of doing despicable things to their people.

The second thing we learnt is that people generally either agreed or did nothing, which as we explained produces the same result.

So that's the first thing cashless fans need to remember. In a cashless society, your government is between you and your money, and it can, for whatever reason, decide you mustn't be allowed to use your cash.

It's happened before, by the way. In Greece, in Cyprus. It's a long list. And it is still happening as bank accounts of the 'undesirable' are being shut in the UK.

So cashless fans need to understand that this is not in our imagination, this isn't a conspiracy theory. And there's no such thing as "if I do nothing wrong, there's nothing to fear."

Dream on. The problem is that in a cashless society, the same entity that decides whether you have access to your money or not also decides what 'wrong' is.

Remember when governments decided that going out for a jog or to buy groceries was a punishable offence?

The second issue, which is equally as important, is that with a cashless society, you're also at the mercy of technology.

The POS machine may not work, your phone battery may die and you won't be able to use Apple Pay, your debit card may demagnetize.

The list goes on.

I'm currently in a country that's desperate to go cashless, ie the UK, and people love it - good for them.

I don't, which is why I'm leaving tomorrow, and I'll kiss the ground when I land in my home country, about a week from now, and then I'll kiss the ground again when I land in the country I've been living for about two years, about two weeks later.

Because both countries love cash. And I love it that they love it.