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This is excellent news. I hope other municipalities and states follow. The exceptions for 'memberships' is a cop-out and hopefully this will be changed in the future as well.

Cash must be accepted. It is the only form of payment (besides cryptocurrencies) where the individual does the payment. Other forms are merely large corporations/institutions using their financial clout to signal that they will pay for something in the future. And those corporations always have perverse incentives to both sell your purchasing history to anyone that wants it as well as enact financial embargoes against arbitrary people/companies whenever even slight political or social pressure is applied.

Only accepting corporate or institutional payments is racism against non-corporate persons (humans).

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Most cryptocurrencies someone else is still doing the payment, they're just selected in pseudorandom way that's waited by their ability to complete a proof of work.

Unless you're using an exchange (admittedly most are) for your trading then it's still your machine telling the network it'd like to do a transaction - somebody is selected via proof of work to confirm it - and then you're on your way. Only you can start the transaction, and it can only be received by the one you addressed it to.

The way credit/debit cards work is far different IMO.

This argument runs counter to all the articles saying China is ahead of the U.S. in cashless transactions and that we should catch up or be left behind.

All those articles about "digitizing commerce" are pushed by parties (fintech startups, banks, you name it) that have a vested interest in getting between you and the vendor.

That said, I won't be surprised if a growth sector of tomorrow's job market is in literally digitizing what didn't need to be digitized, so that Big Tech has an even bigger data pie to gorge upon.

This has already started happening judged by the proliferation of unnecessary IoT like kitchen appliances or your washer/dryer.

A million times yes. I'm just waiting for the next idiotic thing to put on the internet? Light switch? OK, fine. Light bulb? Uhh...... Microwave? Huh?! Fridge? Wtf. How about iot Rice cooker! Bread maker! Shower faucet! (toc apply that zuck up all your data)

https://www.moen.com/whats-new/innovation/u

That's it. Life on this planet is obviously doomed, as evidenced by this fourth horseman here. Nothing to due but start over with a new evolutionary tract in another solar system. I hear good things about silicon-based life on Betelgeuse V.

Humanist?

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