McMurdo Station in Antarctica currently houses exactly two automated teller machines, operated by Wells Fargo, ensuring that the icy grip of late-stage capitalism extends even to…

McMurdo Station in Antarctica currently houses exactly two automated teller machines, operated by Wells Fargo, ensuring that the icy grip of late-stage capitalism extends even to the most desolate frozen wasteland on Earth; the machines are maintained by a single technician who gets deployed from the United States every two years just to make sure scientists can still withdraw physical cash to spend at the continent's surprisingly busy dive bars; because obviously, when you are studying climate change in sub-zero temperatures while surrounded by nothing but penguins and existential dread, the absolute most pressing need is having crisp twenty-dollar bills to buy overpriced drinks from your equally depressed colleagues; it truly warms the heart to know bank fees transcend all geographic boundaries!