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Something I've noticed a huge amount over the last couple of years in particular - no one has any change for the homeless / those on the streets / those collect
by iamben 7y ago
Something I've noticed a huge amount over the last couple of years in particular - no one has any change for the homeless / those on the streets / those collecting for charity. Contactless has been a 'thing' for a while now, but it really seemed to kick up a gear when phones and watches had wallets and the buses and a decent amount of restaurants went 'card only'.
- dylz 7y agoThe charity people here border on harassment, have card readers, physically try to stop you or block you, and apparently none of what you donate actually goes to the charity, it's mostly paid out in commissions to rent seekers.
- arkitaip 7y agoThis is how I imagined the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4CizzE-zZo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4CizzE-zZo
- lovehashbrowns 7y agoAre you talking about the charity people with clipboards in SF? They're seriously the most aggressive people I've ever seen. I'm surprised they have card readers now. I think they used to just write your credit card details on a piece of paper.
- dylz 7y agoBasically the same ones, yeah. Donating through them harms whatever cause you're trying to help.
- virgilp 7y ago> I think they used to just write your credit card details on a piece of paper. Why would you allow anyone to do that? :O
- dylz 7y agoWhy would you give your credit card to a random, uncredentialed person on the street just because they claim to help animals?
- goobynight 7y agoI'm try to respectfully decline them, but if they try to passive aggressively guilt me, I teeter on the cusp of countering by attacking back and trying to crack their self esteem. I haven't done it yet and wouldn't be proud of myself, but it would feel good.
- dylz 7y agoI've seen the ones here do shit like yelling these animals are starving and abused while you go home to your luxury apartment, keep on ignoring their cries-esque stuff
- HeyLaughingBoy 7y agoTell them you plan on eating animal flesh when you get home.
- bryan_w 7y ago"All those animals would be dead in 15 years time anyways"
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoWe call them chuggers in the UK although I haven't seen so many lately.
- officeplant 7y agoHaving been almost 100% cashless for the last decade it's only a matter of time before homeless people use contactless payments as an attempt to defeat my excuses.
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- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoMaybe that isn't such a bad thing, you can get a receipt for your charitable contribution that you can write-off.
- cookie_monsta 7y agoYou're going to have to start saying "I don't have that app" https://probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2018/08/barcode-donations-rough-sleepers-combat-cashless-society/ https://probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2018/08/barcode-donatio...
- hprotagonist 7y agoI carry cash specifically for largesse/almsgiving and basically nothing else.
- ipython 7y agoThe most amazing thing I saw when walking around London was a busker near a tube station who had one of those Square-branded contactless card readers to accept donations.
- m463 7y agoThere are some places like Subway that I used to tip the change from a cash payment. But now they all use credit cards and have no "tip dialog". Restaurants usually have a "tip screen". But now I'm unsure where the tip goes (after the whole Doordash expose)