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Recently I encountered this kind of horse shit visiting friends in Santa Monica. Half the places we went to for food or drinks refused cash, if the federal gov
by pengaru 5y ago
Recently I encountered this kind of horse shit visiting friends in Santa Monica.
Half the places we went to for food or drinks refused cash, if the federal government isn't going to prohibit this the cities should at least do it. Plenty of people only have access to cash, it's arguably discriminatory which is already illegal in the US for businesses serving the public.
I'm just waiting for a savvy LA attorney to gather together enough homeless people from Skid Row for a class action lawsuit and take this issue to the supreme court on discriminatory grounds.
- s1artibartfast 5y agodiscrimination isn't illegal, only against specific groups (e.g. race). Discriminating on factors that affect those groups is legal, as long as the intent is not to use it as a proxy for protected group. See credit scores for more information.
- pengaru 5y agoYou're not wrong, but discrimination in businesses serving the public is a pretty hairy subject. The protected groups are broad enough and the spirit of the law clearly such that there's a pretty straightforward path to arguing refusing to accept cash at public restaurants/bars is discriminating against minorities which tend to overlap substantially with poverty, or religions that prohibit the use of debt/credit where cash would be perfectly fine. The fact of the matter is this move towards cashless retail commerce alienates significant numbers of citizens, and those people overlap substantially with the existing protected groups. If you're going to refuse cash, it should be a private members-only club.