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# Schweden entwickelt sich Richtung bargeldfreie Gesellschaft
- URL: https://neunetz.com/schweden-entwickelt-sich-richtung-bargeldfreie-gesellschaft/
- Published: 2012-03-22T07:38:36.000Z
- Updated: 2012-03-22T07:38:36.000Z
- Author: Marcel Weiß
- Tags: Allgemein, Cash, Payment, Schweden, #wp, #wp-post, #visibility-public, #Import 2024-11-21 20:37

In Schweden geht der Umlauf von Bargeld, also von Scheinen und Münzen, zugunsten ihrer digitalen Alternativen drastisch zurück - mit ersten spürbaren Folgen. [The Washington Post](http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/high-tech-sweden-edges-closer-to-becoming-cashless-society/2012/03/17/gIQANtd2HS%5Fstory.html):

> The number of bank robberies in Sweden plunged from 110 in 2008 to 16 in 2011 — the lowest level since it started keeping records 30 years ago. It says robberies of security transports are also down.  
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> “Less cash in circulation makes things safer, both for the staff that handle cash, but also of course for the public,” says Par Karlsson, a security expert at the organization.  
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> The prevalence of electronic transactions — and the digital trail they generate — also helps explain why Sweden has less of a problem with graft than countries with a stronger cash culture, such as Italy or Greece, says economics professor Friedrich Schneider of the Johannes Kepler University in Austria.  
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> “If people use more cards, they are less involved in shadow economy activities,” says Schneider, an expert on underground economies.

[(via Marginal Revolution)](http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/03/sentences-which-were-not-expected.html)