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Answer: Credit cards enable the user to live beyond his or her means and cash does not.


I only use my credit card as a payment method. Most online shops don't accept anything but credit card, and sometimes I just don't have enough cash with me and don't want to bother walking to the closest ATM.

Credit cards allow you to loan money but I think that's ridiculous. I don't want to have a debt every time I buy something, I just want to pay immediately, with the money I already have, not with money that I don't have.


A benefit (of cash) is that it allows anonymity -- excluding the cashier of course.




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