South Korea is eliminating coins and requiring shoppers to upload their cash receipts to a digital database; Indians are still reeling from a 2016 decision that turned 86% of the country's cash worthless in a matter of hours; migrants and refugees are being targeted for new schemes of financial inclusion, but not experiencing the promised benefits; US cities are retaliating against cash-only retailers eager to speed the flow of customers, increase spending, and surveil our every purchase while excluding undesirable demographics; and despite our technological proficiencies, fiction writers 500 years ago still had more creative solutions to our money woes.
It seems like a straight-forward topic and yet we still manage to ramble off script.
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Ep 68 – Mask Off
Ep 67 – Collapse Chat: So Long and Thanks for All the Surveillance
Ep 66 – Trash Talk
Ep 65 – Above the Paving Stones, the Desert
Ep 64 – Sweet Re-Release
Ep 63 – Busy Work
Ep 62 – Separate Ways
Ep 61 – Owning Change
Ep 60 – Drawn Apart
Ep 59 – Bankrupt Ethics
Ep 58 – Renewable Problems
Ep 57 – Do No Harm
Ep 56 – Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach
Ep 55 – What We Can Do
Ep 54 – Golden Age
Ep 53 – Welfare Titans
Ep 52 – Killing Fields
Ep 51 – Eyes on Me
Ep 50 – Apocalypse Now
Ep 49 – The World Might Be Broken
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