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Austrian leader proposes enshrining the use of cash in his country’s constitution (apnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Education and access to communications are fundamental rights, unlike access to cash. You can live a perfectly normal life without ever touching a single coin.

Of course you can write that in the constitution, but that's just a populist measure of which the Swiss constitution is full of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't say it was the correct place, I just said it's common, to which you agree in your last sentence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just said it’s common, to which you agree in your last sentence.

It's common in Switzerland. You said it was common in all of Europe.