You know, I might find it useful to use a

elevator to get to the top of a skyscraper,

but that doesn't mean I want the emergency stairs removed.

All right, and in many sense,

as the cash system is kind of like the emergency stairs

of the payment systems, extremely resilient,

doesn't go down when the power goes down,

when the hurricane hits.

So actually it's an extremely important system

and actually it's more advanced to many situations

than digital payments are.

I'm Chris Hill and that's Brett Scott.

He's the author of the new book, Cloud Money,

Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for our Wallets.

For the past five years on this show,

we've talked a lot about the War on Cash,

but today we're taking a closer look

at the other side of the War on Cash.

Jason Moser interviewed Scott

about the implications of moving toward

a cashless society,

how money transforms when it goes from your wallet

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