A Cash-Free Society, Previewed

Red Kettle Campaign About $175,000 Short of Goal:

The Salvation Army is running short on it’s [sic] goal to raise money for its year-round programs in the Springfield area.

Red Kettle co-chairs Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams and Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott said with just a few hours left in the Tree of Lights campaign,
the project is $178,000 behind on its goal of $800,000.

In the past, I’ve given all the change in my pocket whenever I’ve passed a bell-ringer. I guess that holds true now, but I don’t have any change in my pocket most of the time because I’m paying with a credit card for everything these days.

Charities like this that depend on micro-donations and impulse coin drops (generally in the ubiquitous vortex collection devices) suffer. If a society goes cashless, a lot of places that get cash donations, like churches, will run into funding problems, too.

Of course, if you’re depending on the government to handle all of the nation’s helpless and homeless, this won’t be a problem at all.

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