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Did a food riot start?

• Brian_K_White 3y ago
  Did this question have a point? It did not.
  • jameshart 3y ago
    To draw attention to the motte and Bailey nature of this argument. The Bailey: ‘cashless payment is fragile and a single outage would lead to riots in the streets’ The Motte: ‘internet and power outages happen and are annoying’ Evidence for the easily defended motte position does not defend the outrageous Bailey.
    • Brian_K_White 3y ago
      As suspected, no point. (nothing was validated or invalidated)
      • jameshart 3y ago
        An instance of one outage not causing a food riot is pretty clear evidence against the proposition that digital payment systems are one outage away from food riots.
• tester457 3y ago
  Thankfully not. But imagine if power was out for several days or weeks, which will happen in the future as natural disasters get worse.
• twic 3y ago
  No, but there was a reasonably priced French red wine riot.