I recently misplaced my wallet. Reasonably certain it was in the house somewhere and would turn up, I didn’t bother canceling my cards.
Other than the nagging worry that I was wrong, I was surprised at how little this inconvenienced me. Not only do most of my day-to-day transactions not require cash, plastic cards are also rarely needed. Just a wave of my phone suffices.
I suppose some ‘junk silver’ (US coins from 1964 or earlier, when they contained 90% silver) would come in handy, but everything in my loose change jar is of a newer vintage.
What will they think of next? Some kind of mark on your right hand or forehead?
‘World Made by Hand’
At any rate, at the time I happened to be reading James Howard Kunstler’s excellent postapocalyptic novel, “World Made by Hand.” What makes the novel so compelling (along with its three excellent sequels) is its thought-provoking focus on the more mundane struggles of post-collapse life. […]
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