Agree, OP! We are too simplistic--and too literal-- in our reading of prophecy. We really for all intents and purposes, have already a cashless economy. No, we haven't been implanted with anything but we are ALL electronically tracked now. ALL our emails, purchases, travel, phone calls, texts, investments, bank accounts etc can be monitored now.

While we were all busy waiting to have a "mark" forced on us, the enemy built the "one-world" economy right around us without our even seeing it. And guess what? We're ALL a part of it. There's no way to function economically apart from the tentacles of this electronic economy that connects everyone and leaves nothing hidden.