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>but cash is also near useless for me. Did your bank/ATM stop accepting it? Do you never settle debts with your friends?
by swiley 5y ago
>but cash is also near useless for me.
Did your bank/ATM stop accepting it? Do you never settle debts with your friends?
- leetcrew 5y ago> Did your bank/ATM stop accepting it? not OP, but my bank literally does not accept cash deposits at its branches, nor does it operate any ATMs. I'm pretty sure I could deposit cash at a 3rd party ATM, but I've never tested that. anyway, I only visit an ATM a few times a year on the rare occasion that I do business with someone who only accepts cash. > Do you never settle debts with your friends? all the time, with venmo. I do understand an respect the privacy argument for cash. but in most cases, it's not worth the inconvenience or sacrificing the 3-5% cashback I get on most purchases.
- helloworld11 5y agoAnd here we have one more example of how our world is turning into an utterly dystopian shit hole of total always-on surveillance. But hey! Never mind all that and its implications. Gotta have that convenience, and of course, that sweet, sweet 3-5% cashback thing... So much better than a modicum of privacy in the intimate details of a daily life. God help us if a truly authoritarian Hitler or Stalinist-type regime creeps into power in a large western country. They won't need to build surveillance structures at all. Everything will already be firmly in place thanks to increments of "convenience".
- 7d7ddhherg 5y agoYeah! Screw useful things! Anyone who bases their choices on utility may as well get in their car right now to go hunt Jews for the pogrom.
- jonheller 5y agoHonestly I completely forgot ATMs accepted cash! And my bank doesn't even have branches within 500 miles. As for friends, I mostly use Square Cash or Apple Pay (or, hesitantly, Venmo, though even with all the privacy enabled I don't love it).