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As the article describes, it may be convenient for you, but for many people it's inconvenient and costly to cash a check. Also, saying that those people messed
by twiss 3y ago
As the article describes, it may be convenient for you, but for many people it's inconvenient and costly to cash a check.
Also, saying that those people messed up in their financial management is sort of blaming their poverty on them, while we can't know (in general) whether that's their fault or not.
- ghaff 3y agoIf I'm paying them in person and a check is a problem I expect them to tell me and I'll pay them in cash is that's reasonable such as for already-completed work. But I'm not mailing cash or diddling around with other random payment mechanisms.
- twiss 3y agoNobody is asking you, specifically, to do anything. But your original point was that checks aren't a problem for you. My point is just that as the article describes, for those without a bank account it does pose problems, and so assuming you do have a bank account, "worksforme" is not a very substantive comment, since the article also already acknowledges that.
- ghaff 3y agoSo paying in cash seems the most straightforward mechanism in that case. Which is fine in-person if checks don't work for some reason.