• circuitfarmer@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Friendly reminder that this is yet another reason people need to keep paying in cash. Eventually these groups will run out of online scapegoats and there will be a more generalized push to control what you can and can’t buy, on or offline.

    Sure, it’s convenient to pop that card down or use Apple pay, etc: but this is why we as a society should not be beholden to a handful of third-party payment processors.

    Pay in cash whenever possible. Even if you don’t believe there will be bigger (offline) issues later, taking money away from the snakes is not a bad thing, and it’s easy to do. They make money on every transaction. The convenience of not dealing with change is not free.

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      1 day ago

      Agreed. I am a cash man these days. Fuck having all my purchases being watched by big brother. Anything I can pay for with cash, I do. Plus, there is no screen rotated your way awkwardly asking for a tip before you have even been served.