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> Trivial solution: I walk to bank some day once a month, give them cash, give them account numbers, sent. It'd be done in all of ten minutes. I've never heard

by pdonis 5y ago

> Trivial solution: I walk to bank some day once a month, give them cash, give them account numbers, sent. It'd be done in all of ten minutes. I've never heard of any bank offering that service. > no-one is saying that literally every transaction has to be done in cash, just that it should be _possible_ to do so. Agreed. But it should also be recognized that there are many people who have good reasons to use payment methods other than cash in many situations. > The idea that cash is this hilariously inconvenient thing is a complete fabrication No one is claiming that cash is always inconvenient. Just that for many people in many situations, it is. > You're talking about moving small physical things If I have to go pay my bills in person, I have to move me, not just some pieces of paper. And if I pay my bills electronically while I'm sitting at my desk at home, I don't have to move anything at all.

ddingus 5y ago
>No one is claiming that cash is always inconvenient. Just that for many people in many situations, it is. So don't use it. Non issue right? Otherwise, dealing with the public comes with some costs. The benefit is being able to do business and turn a profit. Picking and choosing is an abuse of the public.
throwaway22032 5y ago
Sure, if you sit at your desk all month, never visit a high street, and also can't use a postbox, this is an unsolvable problem. Got me. I'm out yo, physical interactions are better than this GPT-3 shite.
- bgirard 5y ago
  We don't have high streets here. All my adjacent banks are in the middle of a parking lot not near anything else I'd want to interact with during my precious Saturday except maybe the grocery store. Sure that's a bad design and I'd prefer to live near UK high streets but that's beyond my control here. This has nothing to do with sitting at my desk. Using cash would mean spending my Saturday at one of the least interesting location I can think of.
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- pdonis 5y ago
  > if you sit at your desk all month, never visit a high street, and also can't use a postbox I never said any of those things. And the idea that schlepping around all over the place to pay monthly bills in person is the best way to get physical exercise is laughable. > physical interactions are better than this GPT-3 shite IMO your posts read a lot more like GPT-3 than mine.
walterbell 5y ago
> If I have to go pay my bills in person, I have to move me, not just some pieces of paper. Coming soon for this market, "brain in a jar". Upload your consciousness into an Altered Carbon simulation, Source Code time loop or immortal-gaming-AI Daemon. After gig economy workers unionize and raise delivery fees, hopefully they won't hire a mercenary army to enforce Code of Customer Conduct.
brendoelfrendo 5y ago
> I've never heard of any bank offering that service. I'm not a cash person, but this is literally how cash deposits work (in the US). You fill out a deposit slip with your account information, hand the slip and the cash to the teller, and that's about it. If you own checks, your check book probably came with some deposit slips pre-filled with your account information.
- mrleinad 5y ago
  Can't you make deposits directly on the ATM? Where I live, the ATM takes your bills, counts them, and directly deposits them in the account you choose. No need to interact with any of those pesky humans.
  - brendoelfrendo 5y ago
    Well, yes, but the GP comment was specifically saying that they had "never heard of any bank" offering the service of taking cash and depositing it into a provided account, which is weird because that is very much a standard service that brick-and-mortar banks provide. Either the other user was uninformed or my sarcasm detector is broken today.
    - pdonis 5y ago
      > he GP comment was specifically saying that they had "never heard of any bank" offering the service of taking cash and depositing it into a provided account No, I said I had never heard of any bank offering the service of taking all the account numbers of all the bills I have to pay and paying them for me out of my bank account.
      - ghaff 5y ago
        You can do so online (which I do for many monthly bills). But that doesn't really solve any perceived problems about maintaining anonymity associated with making cash payments buth neither does anything going through a bank.
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by pdonis 5y ago

ddingus 5y ago

>No one is claiming that cash is always inconvenient. Just that for many people in many situations, it is. So don't use it. Non issue right? Otherwise, dealing with the public comes with some costs. The benefit is being able to do business and turn a profit. Picking and choosing is an abuse of the public.

throwaway22032 5y ago

Sure, if you sit at your desk all month, never visit a high street, and also can't use a postbox, this is an unsolvable problem. Got me. I'm out yo, physical interactions are better than this GPT-3 shite.

bgirard 5y ago
We don't have high streets here. All my adjacent banks are in the middle of a parking lot not near anything else I'd want to interact with during my precious Saturday except maybe the grocery store. Sure that's a bad design and I'd prefer to live near UK high streets but that's beyond my control here. This has nothing to do with sitting at my desk. Using cash would mean spending my Saturday at one of the least interesting location I can think of.
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pdonis 5y ago
> if you sit at your desk all month, never visit a high street, and also can't use a postbox I never said any of those things. And the idea that schlepping around all over the place to pay monthly bills in person is the best way to get physical exercise is laughable. > physical interactions are better than this GPT-3 shite IMO your posts read a lot more like GPT-3 than mine.

walterbell 5y ago

> If I have to go pay my bills in person, I have to move me, not just some pieces of paper. Coming soon for this market, "brain in a jar". Upload your consciousness into an Altered Carbon simulation, Source Code time loop or immortal-gaming-AI Daemon. After gig economy workers unionize and raise delivery fees, hopefully they won't hire a mercenary army to enforce Code of Customer Conduct.

brendoelfrendo 5y ago

> I've never heard of any bank offering that service. I'm not a cash person, but this is literally how cash deposits work (in the US). You fill out a deposit slip with your account information, hand the slip and the cash to the teller, and that's about it. If you own checks, your check book probably came with some deposit slips pre-filled with your account information.

mrleinad 5y ago
Can't you make deposits directly on the ATM? Where I live, the ATM takes your bills, counts them, and directly deposits them in the account you choose. No need to interact with any of those pesky humans.
- brendoelfrendo 5y ago
  Well, yes, but the GP comment was specifically saying that they had "never heard of any bank" offering the service of taking cash and depositing it into a provided account, which is weird because that is very much a standard service that brick-and-mortar banks provide. Either the other user was uninformed or my sarcasm detector is broken today.
  - pdonis 5y ago
    > he GP comment was specifically saying that they had "never heard of any bank" offering the service of taking cash and depositing it into a provided account No, I said I had never heard of any bank offering the service of taking all the account numbers of all the bills I have to pay and paying them for me out of my bank account.
    - ghaff 5y ago
      You can do so online (which I do for many monthly bills). But that doesn't really solve any perceived problems about maintaining anonymity associated with making cash payments buth neither does anything going through a bank.
    - 5y ago