Thought of this more recently. The amount of control tech has over credit or debit cards is dangerous. Not to mention a power outage leaves you with nothing. Or if someday companies decide you can’t use their credit card certain ways.
Its kind of unfeasible today, but maybe we should be using cash for every possible thing…
Plus sometimes credit scores do weird things. At one point I had a credit card with a running balance (bad idea. Don’t do that). I used it for years while I gradually caught up. No problem adding new charges all along. I finally caught up. I breathed a sigh of relief thinking I was in better shape financially ……. And they canceled the card