In China, you can’t exist without a smartphone, because for all existential things you have to do (paying bills, buying tickets etc.) , you are forced to use the almighty wechat app. Smartphones are a tool to manipulate and to spy on the population. It is a tool utilized by the ruling class, to control the masses. I hate the future and I hate “progress”.

  • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemm.eeEnglish
    27·
    11 months ago

    Mom and Pop store shouldn’t be forced to pay for a cash register and a safe. Nor face an increase possibility of robbery looking for cash.

    Now, instead of homeless hanging out by the entrance/exit begging for change, they can hang out and beg a customer to take their $2 cash to buy them water.

    They’re not being banned from buying something they might need. They just need to be more creative.

      • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemm.eeEnglish
        15·
        11 months ago

        Of course you don’t like an example that goes against your bs narrative.

        Many places around the globe have been moving toward cashless purchasing. Hell, you can walk into some Whole Foods and walk out without any type of transaction. If you don’t think that level of interaction will become more wide spread… you seriously need to pull your head out of the sand.

          • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemm.eeEnglish
            12·
            11 months ago

            Bottom line is IMO it certainly isn’t discrimination. Homeless person with enough cash for a bottle of water that only has a cashless option can try to exchange their cash for someone to make the purchase. Now, if they have a hard time finding someone, you could argue that individual people that won’t help are being discriminatory.

            • kmkz_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              11 months ago

              “It isn’t that we built a system that specifically punishes and prohibits the poor and homeless. It’s those darned lazy people who won’t jump through the hurdles we installed to help them.”

              • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemm.eeEnglish
                12·
                11 months ago

                Correct. I won’t. But, that puts the onus on the fellow customers v. business. Isn’t free market ideas grand? BTW: people should never give homeless/beggars any cash. Could be a death sentence when they buy their next fix and OD.