Swiss vote places right to use cash in country’s constitution (www.politico.eu)
from fiberwoman15@sopuli.xyz to world@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 16:00
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The right to use Swiss franc banknotes and coins will be enshrined in Switzerland’s constitution after voters on Sunday backed a measure designed to safeguard the use of cash in society.

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cattywampas@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 16:28 next collapse

What are the details on this law and its enforcement? Because surely it wouldn’t apply to some sectors, like online shopping. So I’m assuming only brick and mortar locations?

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br on 10 Mar 17:01 next collapse

In Japan you can pay for online shopping with cash. The online store give you a code that ypu can use in a convenience store and pay with cash there.

robocall@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 17:55 collapse

I wish I was Japanese or Swiss. Not just because of the cash thing, a lot of reasons.

fiberwoman15@sopuli.xyz on 10 Mar 18:44 next collapse

Good question. I don’t know the answer. The article says this was just voted into law this past Sunday. It doesn’t go into detail about what sectors are affected. I’m guessing more information about it will come out over time. 

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 19:16 collapse

I’m assuming only brick and mortar locations?

Even that can be a problem, here (Denmark) when you charge your EV, you generally have multiple options, either with credit card directly, or credit card through an app, or Mobile pay (A widely popular local to Denmark bank owned payment system), or with a “charging token”, which also works through an app, but works for a lot of different charging stations.

Common for all the options are that they are digital, and AFAIK none of them take cash, and I bet it would be a major pain for the companies to do that. And I have never heard anyone wanting it.

andrewta@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 16:40 collapse

I wish we the public had the right to vote on our constitution in the US. In the US the citizens don’t get to vote on constitution amendments. Only legislators get to vote.

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca on 10 Mar 16:53 next collapse

Weird. They don’t follow their laws, why should you?

HerrVorragend@lemmy.world on 10 Mar 17:04 collapse

I don’t know if this would be a good idea for the USA.

US citizens voted Trump into power. Twice.

If anything, you guys should be given less rights to vote and be put under British rule again. /s

empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 Mar 17:05 collapse

be put under British rule again

takes one look at the UK

… Thats not better right now

joyjoy@lemmy.zip on 10 Mar 18:31 collapse

I wouldn’t be opposed to Canada puppeting the US around like Ratatouille.