In China, you can’t exist without a smartphone, because for all existential things you have to do (paying bills, buying tickets etc.) , you are forced to use the almighty wechat app. Smartphones are a tool to manipulate and to spy on the population. It is a tool utilized by the ruling class, to control the masses. I hate the future and I hate “progress”.

  • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemm.ee
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    Bottom line is IMO it certainly isn’t discrimination. Homeless person with enough cash for a bottle of water that only has a cashless option can try to exchange their cash for someone to make the purchase. Now, if they have a hard time finding someone, you could argue that individual people that won’t help are being discriminatory.

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      “It isn’t that we built a system that specifically punishes and prohibits the poor and homeless. It’s those darned lazy people who won’t jump through the hurdles we installed to help them.”

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          Sorry, I thought the homeless were just supposed to beg people to be able to use the default currency of the United States.

          Ya know, the point you made in the previous comment that was what I was responding to.

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      Bottom line is IMO it certainly isn’t discrimination.

      A lot of individuals, groups, and governments disagree with you.

      Homeless person with enough cash for a bottle of water that only has a cashless option can try to exchange their cash for someone to make the purchase.

      Oh come on man, this is america. No one is going to do that for those who need it, i know you don’t believe that.