Oddbean new post about | logout
 “When Cypherpunks wrote that privacy is necessary in order to establish democratic society in digital age, that's a profound statement, because you do look at states in which people do not have privacy, they can't have freedom in the digital age." - @ROCKSTAR with @walker 

Listen on @fountain_app 

https://fountain.fm/episode/Nxbtak9aaEfVk7eX7N5Q 
 I need that balaclava please. 
 I've been thinking about Eric Hughes quote in the a lot since many businesses stopped accepting cash.

If you don't accept cash, you close society to people who work for cash, essentially creating second class citizens.  That's how I see it anyway. 
 when banks are above the law, cash goes away 
 I have to listen that