A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit
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... And feed the credit card issuers?
I'm not feeding them, the store is. My local worker owned grocery store doesn't accept credit cards. Not my favorite, but I don't pay cash back prices when I shop there.
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Eh, for a lot of businesses, the few percent they pay in card fees is worth it to avoid handling large quantities of cash. Cash is a pain in the ass to actually work with on a large scale. Collecting it, counting it, securing it, keeping employees and random criminals from stealing it, etc. Plus lots of cash allows employees to steal from both the employer or the customer by giving bad change deliberately.
Not that businesses shouldn't accept cash, but there is a reason a lot of them don't want to mess with it. It's an enormous hassle.
I'm not saying back to cash, I'm saying near zero cost transaction with contactless smartcards.
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Hello, generic cousin
Hello! What other measures you take? Use Gemini (the protocol?) Use I2P? Freenet?
Inquiring minds want to know!