Mine has to be cop procederals and paper money.
A)I just like solving mysteries and problems and have a natural deference to authority figures, so I’ve watched way too many cop shows. The only one I’m not ashamed to name is The Wire, which is really good and probably is the only one with genuine substance.
B)It’s not the concept of money I enjoy, i just like having a physical thing I exchange to get another physical thing. I…“dislike” per se, using numbers on a screen to get food or something.
I don’t see why paper money would be bourgeois. Sure, in a socialist society i see no issue doing away with physical cash, and in fact it can help suppress black market and criminal activity, which are undesirable as they re-create bourgeois mentality and carry seeds of capitalist restoration.
But as long as we live under capitalism and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, digital transactions are dangerous since they allow the bourgeois state to track you and your activities, making physical money actually a necessity for revolutionaries once the phase of active underground resistance is entered.
Context is everything, and imo in our context paper money is not necessarily bourgeois, and it has the potential to be revolutionary.
In China you see Xi pay with cash during visits bc has to promote the use of paper cash again as many stores completely stopped accepting it in favor of alipay and other digital methods lol. But yeah, money is money. Its commodity status is the same in capitalism whether that money is paper or digital.
Really? Is this still happening? Do you think they want to try to bring back the use of cash? At this point the transition to digital payments seems to be so comprehensive and have penetrated so deep into the society in China that it appears to me almost impossible to reverse.
Cash is still legal tender that shops are obligated to accept, I assume millions of people in China still don’t have access to digital payment options. Though I remember seeing a grandma on the way to the highest village in China carrying an alipay QR code lol. She sells water bottles to travelers on the way up.
I know cash still technically has to be accepted, and i’ve never been to China myself, but in all the travel videos i’ve watched you just don’t really see it anymore at all, even in some of the most remote, rural locations.
I think the one occasion i do see cash being exchanged is as a gift on special occasions and celebrations. And of course when tourists use it.
Again, this is just from what i can see in videos that people share from China, i would be very curious to hear from someone who lives there how much cash is still used.