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Staff would also prefer not counting cash and having to be responsible. My first job in high school was at Dunkin and I hated having to count $2000 worth of coi

Staff would also prefer not counting cash and having to be responsible. My first job in high school was at Dunkin and I hated having to count $2000 worth of coins and bills at the end of my shift. I'd gladly break a $50 or $100 bill for people so that it'd be easier to count at the end of the day. One day my drawer was $100 short and thankfully the manager believed me. Protocol is for each staff to have their own drawers and swap them in/out but in practice everybody shares drawers making accountability more like whomever the manager dislikes that week. Homeless people should just buy a prepaid debit card and top it up at supermarkets. Cash has no place in a modern society.

DiscourseFan 3y ago
>Cash has no place in a modern society. Cash is an anonymous form of payment, it is secure and untraceable. Anyone can get it and it is not associated with anyone in particular. It doesn't just have a place in modern society, as long as we live in a money system, to protect the privacy of citizens it is necessary that we use cash.
- JCharante 3y ago
  If you still want privacy you can one-time use prepaid cards.
  - Grimburger 3y ago
    Which come with a large fee compared to the value they hold.
CaptainZapp 3y ago
Poor people who need to rely on pre paid debit cards, which charge for every transaction, including topping the card up. It's expensive to be poor and the vultures are even more on you ripping you off. Obligatory addition: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/ https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/
- JCharante 3y ago
  I know there are activation fees but I didn't know there are per-transaction fees. A system like Bangkok's Rabbit cards would be better (no fees beyond the fee for getting a card) or Japan's SUICA cards. They are transportation cards that also get accepted at convenience stores and some restaurants and you can top them up at any train stop.
Grimburger 3y ago
> Cash has no place in a modern society. In my country your worthiness to get a homeloan goes down for even a few dollars worth of lotteries tickets on your bank statement. Same with alcohol or cigarettes.
- throwawayadvsec 3y ago
  it makes sense though
southernplaces7 3y ago
So because of some bullshit, trifling adolescent inconveniences you had with cash, you now neatly enclose yourself off into a categorical belief that cash "has no place" in society. Never mind how the prepaid cards you speak of only encourage more parasitic fees and costs to the most basic aspects of living for poor people, or how the fundamental privacy of paying for daily things without having all your choices registered and judged by cold, remote, closed systems is something to applaud. But none of those matter details right? The important thing for how the world should work is your own little bubble of personal comfort. A rather disgusting number of people on this site share these kinds of narrowly elitist ideas of how the world should work, based purely on their own privileged experiences and notions.

DiscourseFan 3y ago

>Cash has no place in a modern society. Cash is an anonymous form of payment, it is secure and untraceable. Anyone can get it and it is not associated with anyone in particular. It doesn't just have a place in modern society, as long as we live in a money system, to protect the privacy of citizens it is necessary that we use cash.

JCharante 3y ago
If you still want privacy you can one-time use prepaid cards.
- Grimburger 3y ago
  Which come with a large fee compared to the value they hold.

CaptainZapp 3y ago

Poor people who need to rely on pre paid debit cards, which charge for every transaction, including topping the card up. It's expensive to be poor and the vultures are even more on you ripping you off. Obligatory addition: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/ https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/

JCharante 3y ago
I know there are activation fees but I didn't know there are per-transaction fees. A system like Bangkok's Rabbit cards would be better (no fees beyond the fee for getting a card) or Japan's SUICA cards. They are transportation cards that also get accepted at convenience stores and some restaurants and you can top them up at any train stop.

Grimburger 3y ago

> Cash has no place in a modern society. In my country your worthiness to get a homeloan goes down for even a few dollars worth of lotteries tickets on your bank statement. Same with alcohol or cigarettes.

throwawayadvsec 3y ago
it makes sense though

southernplaces7 3y ago

So because of some bullshit, trifling adolescent inconveniences you had with cash, you now neatly enclose yourself off into a categorical belief that cash "has no place" in society. Never mind how the prepaid cards you speak of only encourage more parasitic fees and costs to the most basic aspects of living for poor people, or how the fundamental privacy of paying for daily things without having all your choices registered and judged by cold, remote, closed systems is something to applaud. But none of those matter details right? The important thing for how the world should work is your own little bubble of personal comfort. A rather disgusting number of people on this site share these kinds of narrowly elitist ideas of how the world should work, based purely on their own privileged experiences and notions.