January 23, 2026
Every shopping receipt in Taiwan is a lottery ticket. Taiwan set up this lottery system in 1951 to combat unrecorded, and therefore untaxed, transactions. Taiwanese tax revenue jumped 75 percent the year the lottery started.
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How Would a Cashless Society Work?
There’s a place today where a rapidly decreasing number of people rely on cash: Sweden. It’s the developed Western country that, today, is probably closest to being a cashless society. Even though an overwhelming majority of businesses accept cash, a very small percentage of consumers actually want
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