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If you want to not appear unhinged, I recommend avoiding calling obviously innocuous things evil unless you've already given your reasons for doing so. There a

If you want to not appear unhinged, I recommend avoiding calling obviously innocuous things evil unless you've already given your reasons for doing so. There are very real risks a food truck faces in accepting cash: fomite diseases, counterfits, armed robbery. I'm guessing you're fine enforcing the truck owners bear these risks.

logifail 4y ago
> There are very real risks a food truck faces in accepting cash: fomite diseases, counterfits, armed robbery For balance we all know that there are [other] risks associated in accepting card payments. We should also note that the card payment system is not "free", not available to everyone, and does not operate without collateral damage, not least that it excludes vulnerable groups in society. > I'm guessing you're fine enforcing the truck owners bear these risks Enforcing following the rules (particular not wriggling around them using legal loopholes) should - one might think - be a fairly mainstream view?
oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
I agree that "evil" is maybe a step too far, but "innocuous" is too short, imo. I don't think it's fair or reasonable to block sections of society — people without a credit card — from making purchases like this.
- bumby 4y ago
  Is your position that it should be mandated by law or just the right thing for a business to do at their discretion? I grew up in an area where Canadian currency often made it into the money supply and most vendors would just accept Canadian quarters at the US rate without a fuss. I remember the weird looks I got the first time I tried to do the same in a state further south. I feel like both are reasonable approaches but I would hesitate to legally mandate one approach because they are context dependent.
superkuh 4y ago
It is evil. This is a food business that literally won't sell to human persons. It will only sell to corporate persons. That's evil and has serious damaging consequences to society.

logifail 4y ago

> There are very real risks a food truck faces in accepting cash: fomite diseases, counterfits, armed robbery For balance we all know that there are [other] risks associated in accepting card payments. We should also note that the card payment system is not "free", not available to everyone, and does not operate without collateral damage, not least that it excludes vulnerable groups in society. > I'm guessing you're fine enforcing the truck owners bear these risks Enforcing following the rules (particular not wriggling around them using legal loopholes) should - one might think - be a fairly mainstream view?

oneeyedpigeon 4y ago

I agree that "evil" is maybe a step too far, but "innocuous" is too short, imo. I don't think it's fair or reasonable to block sections of society — people without a credit card — from making purchases like this.

bumby 4y ago
Is your position that it should be mandated by law or just the right thing for a business to do at their discretion? I grew up in an area where Canadian currency often made it into the money supply and most vendors would just accept Canadian quarters at the US rate without a fuss. I remember the weird looks I got the first time I tried to do the same in a state further south. I feel like both are reasonable approaches but I would hesitate to legally mandate one approach because they are context dependent.

superkuh 4y ago

It is evil. This is a food business that literally won't sell to human persons. It will only sell to corporate persons. That's evil and has serious damaging consequences to society.