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is it just me or should cashless restaurants be SUPER illegal?
Poverty, immigration status, domestic abuse, mental illness: there are so many reasons i can think of why people can't or won't use banks / digitally tracked currency and the unifying theme is that these people are very vulnerable
It’s more of a civil rights problem for things like public transit etc to be switching to cashless, and I see there is some benefit to going cashless. Money is unsanitary as hell. But I can’t help but feel like accessibility questions aren’t being asked about this kind of tech
And I hate that the best argument in favor of cashless businesses is that it prevents armed robbery. It’s a fair but depressing point. We need gun control bad.
I know a lot of these places are too expensive for some unbanked people to eat at. But these policies will be weaponized against folks in tough spots, who have just enough cash to buy a drink so they have somewhere to sit inside for a while. It's cruel and ugly
