And the reach of corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater. We may be wrong, but this could definitely be a good author to have on our podcast to further expand on his opinions and particular point of view!? This is certainly a thought provoking book, and he may well find the ideas described here also picked up by others with their own agendas to advance, but, at times it felt like his opinion may have been made up before he did the research or wrote the chapters. Otherwise it is increasingly common to have one coin to fit into the supermarket trolly, and one note just incase you are truly stuck somewhere that won’t take a cashless payment.įor Scott this may validate the concerns he is articulating, however at times we felt that in some parts of the book, the fright value was high, whereas the details about the risks were more thinly covered and discussed. He explains these well, but for many of us, if we consider the absence of metallic lumps jingling in our pockets, or even notes in our wallets, it has been a long time since many of us had cash on us. There are some sections where he does articulate well the risks that can follow from an overly digitised and centrally controlled system of money. In some ways you have to question if Scott’s goal, a push back against the move to a cashless society is a along the lines of shutting the stable door long long after the horse is out into the fields and far far away. Scott is not necessarily a fellow traveller with those types of ideologies, but, through his advocacy of us questioning, and not completely diving into a cashless world, his concepts have appealed to these groups. Cloud money: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets, reviewedīrett Scott’s ideas and opinions have been quoted and popped up in some interesting places, and by interesting we mean with far-right libertarians and deep conspiracy theorists.

We look at this topical book by Brett Scott, you can see more about Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets here.

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