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Yes remember being in Zulu village, Natal 2002 and they all had the old brick cellphones. These are people that had never had a landline.

Still currently in Peru and cash is the King. For example there are what seems millions of taxis and buses in Lima. Very few people own a car  amongst the city’s  10 million residents. The un metered taxi and bus fleets are ancient. They only take cash. In fact they almost discourage transport upgrades as the bus conductors (who would all lose their jobs) go on big demonstrations. Any threat to job security here is a massive vote killer, and the politicians very much like to keep their jobs!

Then you have the apparently 2 million residents here, who don’t have a ‘job’. ie a huge informal economy of folks having to sell whatever  they can to live.

A move to a cashless society here remains a pipe dream.

Yes remember being in Zulu village, Natal 2002 and they all had the old brick cellphones. These are people that had never had a landline.

Still currently in Peru and cash is the King. For example there are what seems millions of taxis and buses in Lima. Very few people own a car  amongst the city’s  10 million residents. The un metered taxi and bus fleets are ancient. They only take cash. In fact the almost discourage transport upgrades as the bus conductors (who would all lose their jobs) go on big demonstrations. Any threat to job security here is a massive vote killer, and the politicians very much like to keep their jobs!

Then you have the apparently 2 million residents here, who don’t have a ‘job’. ie a huge informal economy of folks having to sell whatever  they can to live.

A move to a cashless society here remains a pipe dream.

Yes remember being in Zulu village, Natal 2002 and they all had the old brick cellphones. These are people that had never had a landline.

Still currently in Peru and cash is the King. For example there are what seems millions of taxis and buses here. Very few people own a car  amongst Lima’s 10 million residents. The un metered taxi and bus fleets are ancient. They only take cash. In fact they almost discourage transport upgrades as they bus conductors (who would all lose their jobs) go on big demonstrations.

A move to a cashless society here remains a pipe dream.