It’s discrediting valid concerns against card-payments. It’s invalidating how great cash is.
It’s when the worst person you know makes a good point.
And things now are so Culture-Wars-y, nobody makes solid analyses any more, that when the far-right say cards are bad, everybody jumps to thinking cards are good.
ok: you never have the correct change, oftentimes you get changed short, takes up too much space, you have to balance between not carrying too little and not carrying too much, hard to track spending (can be your upside, i understand)
i believe that we need the option to use cache in society, but it sucks ass to actually use it day-to-day
I mean your observations are correct, but I feel your reaction is sensationalism.
For hundreds of not thousands of years we’ve dealt with it. That’s not just, coping because there isn’t a better option, Humans are pretty capable when they’re not lazy
As a result change accumulates. Every so often I bring it to my credit union and throw it into a machine and deposit it for free.
It’s very rare and the mistakes sometimes happen in my favor.
Not usually. Only when on occasion I need to process a lot of change at once is there a significant space requirement.
This is trivial. I never spend more than half a second on such a decision. Usually I know instantly what to bring.
That’s a feature.
I believe cache must remain legal tender and refusing to accept cache should result in a felony conviction plus one year imprisonment.
That said, I would eliminate the penny and the nickel, and put the quarter on a serious diet. Then outlaw all the .99 and .95 type pricing. It might be OK to do away with the dime as well and only leave the largest coin in use.
Privacy and the freedom from oversight by any large entity are non-negotiable.
The only oversight I support is me doing oversight on you, and never someone else doing oversight on me. I am not a masochist.