GENERAL IELTS WRITING Task2: in the future, people may no longer be able to pay for things in shops using cash. All payments may have to be made by card or using phones

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Do you think
this
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will happen one day? Why do you think some
people
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might not be happy to give up using
cash
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?
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making
payments
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in
cash
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in stores has not
been
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disappeared completely, card and mobile phone
apps
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are considered to make
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obsolete in the years to come. Even if some
people
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feel
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trend is not as safe as paying in
cash
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is
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, I firmly believe that we are almost on the edge of
the
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era
which
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in which
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all
kind
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kinds
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of
payments
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will be made by using plastic
cards
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and mobile
apps
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in shopping malls. In society, we have a kind of
people
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who are too susceptible to accept news or a new form of some
sorts
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of inventions and other stuff in our daily life. One of the common
feeling
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is that making
payments
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by
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cards
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card
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or using mobile phones is not safe enough. They have a fear of being attacked by cybercriminals.
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make
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them less sure to use
cards
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and special payment
apps
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. They carry
therefore
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cash
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with them
,
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when they need to go
for
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apply
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shopping.
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, there are a couple of advantageous sides
of
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to
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paying by
cars
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car
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and
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payments
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payment
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apps
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, in general. The first obvious reason is that carrying
card
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a card
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or
phones
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phone
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is rather convenient than
cash
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.
This
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makes shopping much easier and less worrying in a way that
enabling
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enables
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clients to do large
shoppings
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shopping
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at once, especially for
shopoholics
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shopaholics
, and not
being
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afraid of pickpocketing as well. Another upside is to save time during making
payments
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. It is commonly observed in large stores
costumers
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customers
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need to
be stand
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on quite long queues. Obviously,
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leads to
lose
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losing
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client’s
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the client’s
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precious time.
Conversely
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,
cards
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and payment
apps
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make
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process way faster and unmistakably. All in all, to take all those cases
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account I would argue that we should have transformed our payment methods to new ones, even if some
people
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will not be happy.
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