How do you imagine elderly people that don’t really understand technology would cope with downloading an app or going to a web site to pay for parking.

How can you not have the empathy to think of people that might struggle with things. So many questions…

Ever had a moment where you needed to go buy groceries but couldn't pay because the payment system is down nation wide?

Many people did many times and if you don't have cash on you, well you can't pay for shit.

A cashless society is not a good thing. And that is especially dumb since a merchant can't refuse legal tender, but the federal government is refusing legal tender by doing this.

I happen to prefer not to always have my location tracked by a cell phone company or my transactions recorded by a credit card issuer. The ability to be anonymous is a vital component of freedom. Plus, you can still pay for things in cash if something has wiped out all local network connectivity. And yes, I have been known to pay for gas in cash—not always, but now and again (and an EV doesn't need gas, anyway, so that question is increasingly irrelevant).

I do not require or expect other people to have the same priorities that I do.

When I decide to visit a park and arrive to find that I can't pay cash, it's a problem. Visiting a park is a transient event, there does not need to be ANY permanent relation between myself and the park operator. There is no reason to require trusting some random site with payment details, generating another set of account credentials, and installing some mystery app that wants way too many permissions just to visit a park.

Do you like the idea of all our payments for everything going through a private duopoly who takes a cut of every transaction?

We don't have a digital option that's open or private.