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It's well established that lower income cohorts have less access to digital finance and credit. Cashless systems instantly become a proxy to exclude those cohor
by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
It's well established that lower income cohorts have less access to digital finance and credit. Cashless systems instantly become a proxy to exclude those cohorts.
- josephcsible 4y agoBut income isn't a protected class either (and it can't be made one, or nothing would be allowed to be expensive).
- dredmorbius 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32091797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32091797 1. If the net effect is to discriminate against a protected class, legal liability may still exist. 2. Discrimination as a general concept is not identicial to discrimination against a protected class. It may be legal in a strict sense, and still morally, socially, and politically reprehensible and/or disruptive.