I notice more and more places in Aotearoa refusing to accept cash for payments, despite the fact that it's legal tender. If this isn't already illegal, it ought to be. If it is, those laws need to be enforced.
Some people prefer to keep some (or all) of our transactions private, rather than sharing data about them with banks, payment providers, and anyone else they share it with or sell it to. We have that right.
Fair point - if you're not using digital payments, you should make the effort to get used to them. Cash is (mostly) going away. (This article also contains a guide to getting started with digital.)
Cash is dead. Why are we still pretending it isn’t?
Sure, it costs businesses money to deal with cash, but it always has. Isn't making customers pay extra for a cost that should already be priced into product or service delivery double dipping?
What we really should be talking about is how companies like banks are mining transaction #data and usin g it to profile people #SurveillanceCapitalism
#cash is still less traceable than card, and I am tired of being tracked and surveilled digitally.
I am appalled this is the thinking of the #RBA - it's clear whose interests they are serving.
Interesting, though I don't agree that you invariably have to tip in cash in the USA – I was there in October and all my tipping was via electronic means.
Do you still need cash overseas? Countries and situations where you can’t pay by credit card
New research makes it possible to calculate the emissions generated by a company’s #cash and #investments (cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities). This research illuminates that this previously #HiddenEmissions source is substantial. For some of the world’s largest companies, including #Alphabet, #Meta, #Microsoft, and #Salesforce, their cash and investments are their largest source of #emissions.
Apart from the fact that #anarchists are mentally different and not fixated on #capital, the content of this article is exciting:
«How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity. Once, #drug dealers and #money launderers saw #cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable.
JUST OVER A DECADE AGO, #Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail: truly #private#digital#cash for the #Internet.»
Just out of curiosity: Would it technically possible to use #Taler#GNUTaler with a chip card? So that it cannot only be used for online transactions, but also to pay a #coffee?
I ask, because I was very disappointed by #vegan restaurant in #Berlin the other day. #Pizza was OK, but they do not accept #cash. In fact, the waiter took my money and they paid my bill using their card. Maybe Taler could be used for that use case in the future?
In a world explicitly designed, as ours is, to keep as many people as possible in precarious, untenable #economic conditions, one moral thing to do to help ameliorate that immoral reality is to provide #cash directly to as many people as we can, with absolutely no restrictions on its use.
Keep your gross, sycophantic arguments against #UBI to yourself, I'm not entertaining your sick arguments against helping people deliberately harmed by our global #corporate overlords.
Letztes Jahr stellte Volker Wissing die Pläne der Bundesregierung für diese Legislaturperiode vor. Ein Jahr später gibt es eine nationale #Digitalstrategie und eine Debatte über eine internationale Digitalstrategie. Wo stehen wir 2023? Darüber diskutiert er mit @markus_netzpolitik am 6. Juni von 13:45 Uhr bis 14:15 Uhr auf der @republica!