I got in a taxi this morning, and the taxi driver asked me whether it was ok if I paid in cash. He explained that their computer system is down, so using a credit card would be problematic.<\/p>\n
I replied “Sure, cash works.”<\/p>\n
Then I thought about it a bit more, and I added “If cash stops working, we’re all in trouble.”<\/p>\n
In that moment it occurred to me how much I take for granted that I live in a country with a stable monetary system. For all of the recent political talk in the the U.S. about which political party is hell-bent on destroying the economy (universal answer: The other party), we actually take quite a bit for granted here.<\/p>\n
Everyone in the U.S. can be confident that the twenty dollar bill in their pocket is still going to represent pretty much the same value after a week or a month. There have been many times and places in the world where that has very much not been true.<\/p>\n
Perhaps we should take a moment, between all of the shouting and finger pointing in the lead-up to our forthcoming election, to count our blessings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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