I know that in America using cash is inconvenient because American money is uniquely miserable and impractical for several reasons all of which are incredibly unnecessary and I've got a thread in progress over literally years about it but just use it anyway for now, there's no wisdom in giving the credit card bastards 2% of Literally All Your Money Forever, that all adds up to Way Too Much Power and they just can't be bloody trusted with it

Three thousand years of coins working mostly fine

Barely forty years of credit cards enabling some weirdo with too much money to stop you buying gay platformer videogames