Comment on You must have an internet connected smartphone to eat

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• dastanktal@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s life currently in the US. Aren’t there plenty of restaurants currently going mobile only or kiosk only where you need an app to interact with the restaurant?

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  • Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Plenty? I have never been to any restaurant that didn’t take cash or credit card, and especially not one that FORCES you to use Whatsapp to get a code so you can pay through their shitty app.

    Have YOU been to a restaurant like that in the US? Not saying they can’t exist, but I just imagine it’d be extremely rare.

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  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not "plenty", and the ones that do are either very very good, or die in a year or two.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bring back the penny.

  The penny going away is not cash going away.

  Trying to even find some estimate of inflation going back that far is a pain, but it looks like the smallest federally-issued denomination was the half-cent coin, in 1793.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_cent

  www.in2013dollars.com

  Based on the above, a half-cent would be 17¢ today. The dime today is worth less than the half cent.

  I’d be more-concerned about whether new bills of sufficiently-large denominations are available to make using cash practical, not coins of very small denomination.

  The issue with the penny is that the handling costs are significant.

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  • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No it just means that everything is rounded now and you’re paying more for everything. Small, yes but you’re still paying more now. That’s what they want. They Wan toyu spending more and inflating the economy passively. The move also makes it so that spending the exact amount is only available digitally/with a card payment.

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    • bountygiver@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      the paying more part is already covered by inflation

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• vogi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Its honestly so weird to me that Musk did not already do that with him buying himself so deep into politics, owning X and PayPal. It would be so fucking easy, he did say that it would be the plan but somehow he is even bad at being evil.

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    He’s been out of PayPal for a while, but he does want to make twitter the American WeChat.

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