Oh there's plenty of paper and non-paper out there to do the same damage. Ever cut yourself on cardboard? How about those plastic straps they put around heavy boxes and packages? Or my personal favorite, splinters and burrs. Glass, rock, metal, sheets of plastic - anything thin will do if you hit it at just the right angle. It's a tossup as to which bonus location is worse, under the fingernail or across the finger webbing. Or if you're REALLY unlucky, the eye. a scratched cornea is no joke. Wear your safety glasses kids.

I got a paper cut from grabbing a cornstalk this week.

this is honestly a solid shower thought👍

must've had a great shower✨

People will start cutting themselves on razorthin smartphones instead.

Society will never go fully paperless. If we would have it would have been around 1998. Though I suppose depending on which apocalypse scenario gets us, there will be a time when paper cuts are a rarity only suffered by the few brave souls who scavenge the ruins of the Before Times.

Considering I will probably never get to own a house, cardboard cuts will always be a thing.

I had to send mail to the government recently and got a freaking paper cut on my tongue as I licked the envelope glue to seal it. 😬

I doubt society will go fully paperless, there are times when you need a thing that can be crushed, folded, whatever and doesn't run out of battery, so unless e-ink technology develops in a very specific way I don't think every eventually will be replaced, and even without purely functional applications I think art would never ever go fully paperless for many data security (leaking art before it's complete), economic (things are more expensive when they're limited in supply, and making either legal or illegal copies of digital things is so much easier) and sentimental reasons (it's just nicer to have something physical) reasons

Paper cut is just one of the way the tree ghost exact revenge, there's plenty of opportunities.

I'm clumsy enough that I've got a "paper cut" from aluminum foil while preparing dinner.

By the way, anyone ever got a bread crust cut? I did. On my own baked bread.

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I can see in the future paper cuts becoming an Olympic sport, like sword fighting. People of the future will stand in a ring with two pieces of paper and will try to make a cut on their opponent's piece of artificially grown skin, placed at the center of their chest. People will cheer as the athletes try to cut their opponent with an ancient piece of technology

Are the cuts from packaging different then?

Never heard of cardboard cuts.....

Don't worry. There are still box cutter cuts.

Yeah but the PCB inside the paperless device would be as sharp as a paper, not to mention the component thin legs such as electrolytic capacitors (although the majority of electronic components are tiny blocks surface-mounted, there are components that need to be welded in a THT (through-hole) fashion because their electrical contents can't fit the small space of a SMD).

Is this a think skin problem im too calloused to understand?

Aren't they already?

Oh, they'll find a way. Let me tell you mylar papercuts leave nice scars.

Imagine the paradise slaves were living under, they could never be the victims of pay cuts.