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”.

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    Many places around the globe have been moving toward cashless purchasing. Hell, you can walk into some Whole Foods and walk out without any type of transaction. If you don’t think that level of interaction will become more wide spread… you seriously need to pull your head out of the sand.

    I’m not sure what this is in response to? I never said it wasn’t happening - quite the contrary. I’m saying it’s a trend I don’t like and I laid out why.

    The fact that you’re calling out major companies like Whole Foods means you understood exactly what I mean when I said I don’t like propping up mom and pop shops for arguments. But honestly I can’t tell what you think said anymore.

    Not sure what warranted this hostile tone.

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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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        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.