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I used to work in manufacturing. One place used the Japanese standard of manufacturing with paper based progress gates and faxing copies to other sections. They also paid cash for any outside contracts. The whole system worked flawlessly. Those negatives are not as bad as they seem.
I see cash as an absolute win
As someone who worked in shops for many years, cash is disgusting and should be burned!
Think about how digital movies and games are routinely locked and blocked. Do you want the government to be able to do that to all of your liquid cash?
I get your point, but if your government is already screwing up the economy - hoarding physical cash is no better. See African countries and India's 2016 cash crisis: massive queues at the bank for worthless paper.
It's not about hoarding cash. It's about privacy and surveillance. Cash is the only truly anonymous means of payment.
Why is cash society a bad thing???
I'm not against cash, but being cash only would be a nightmare.
Cash is filthy, and it takes time to have to look through and work out (for all stakeholders). It costs money to secure it as well. It wears out over time and has to be minted.
What's wrong with paper filling or cash society?
Eh paper filing is meh imo. Cash is great though!!!
Paper filing is a nightmare. Imagine filling forms manually, stamping them over and over again for a simple contract that could have been e-signed.
Also on a higher level, digitization of records is a huge plus.
Cash society is better than a card one for homeless people
30 years ago, Japan was a glimpse into what life would be like in 20 years.
Now, Japan is a glimpse into what life was like 20 years ago.
Deutsche: 
The cash thing is becoming way less true. The toilets are legit magic though.
They really still use floppy disks?
No, not publicly. The last manufacturer of diskettes in Japan (Sony, I believe) shut down production several years ago.
Conversely, there is still infrastructure In America that requires 5" floppies and Windows 3.11 installs or else some critical system will fail.
Society at large in both countries no longer uses them.
What kind of infrastructure is like that in the US? I worked in IT for one of the largest power companies in the country and the worst we had was win2000 in one location that was being decommissioned anyway.
Nuclear missile silos
First of all, they used 8" floppies, which were even older.
Second, they recently finally upgraded.
Believe me, these are the least of Japan's problems.
True, but considering the amount of data leaks recently, sometimes old tech is more secure.
Tbh I’d say they’re way less cash-based than believe to be. Obviously just my experience but most places take visa or Suica from Tokyo to Hiroshima to Kanazawa and everything in between.