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"Emergency legislations" can happen out of the blue. And flipping a bit to trash my card might take some hours after that.

Removing cash at least would have one or two elections between the ban and it taking effect.



modi demonetized most bills overnight


Sure.

My point is also that "revoking all bills" is a bigger step than "disable a card", even though both or possible. Having cash is a bigger buffer against politicians up to no good.

Also you can't target an individual by revoking bills, so the threshold is way higher.


fair point




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