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My solution to this as a human person is to use cash for all transactions that I can.

• spiralx 4y ago
  Which also costs time and money to handle and secure, potentially more than card charges do. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180130005244/en/New-Research-IHL-Group-Shows-Retailers%25E2%2580%2599-Cash-handling/ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180130005244/en/New...
• scarface74 4y ago
  If I were running a business, I would only accept credit cards. The small fee is worth the tradeoff of not having to handle cash with the risk of employee theft, robberies, counting money, going to the bank, etc. Unfortunately, some cities outlawed that.
  • BizarroLand 4y ago
    Well, yeah, because cash is legal tender, so allowing companies to not accept cash subverts the whole system. I get it that cards are cash equivalent, but it's terribly anti-consumer for companies to not accept cash. That removes poor people's ability to acquire goods and services as well.
    • scarface74 4y ago
      https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm > There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise. > Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," states: "United States coins and currency [including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve Banks and national banks] are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues." This statute means that all U.S. money as identified above is a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor.