Cash is King (Sign) + Comments (Below / After)

MY COMMENT = Reminds us that each transaction costs!

CASH IS OUR PREFERRED METHOD OF PAYMENT

With CASH we return 100% of its value.

The Big Banks Receive 0%

The Card Processing Companies Receive 0%

Support Your Local Independent Business By

PAYING WITH CASH

Let's Keep CASH ALIVE!

#Local #Independent #Payment #Transaction #Community #Privacy #Tracking #Bank #P2P #Peer2Peer #Future (if using big #banks )

IDEAS + COMMENTS FROM THREAD BELOW https://linuxrocks.online/@rose/113844858402063933

#Anonymous #payment #card
@rose
Something like a #universal #gift #card

PRIVACY / BANK TRACKING
@dangoodin
The tracking of your hourly whereabouts, your purchases and your contacts seems like a high price to me. YMMV.

RISK OF CASH
@iagox86
... I imagine the risk of robbery balances is higher than the transaction cost (at least in their mind).

NO NEED PROTECTION FOR SMALL ITEMS
@femme_mal
I don't need the protections a card offers on purchases of fresh vegetables at the local farm market but the purchase of hard goods like a new refrigerator certainly merits them.

Card Convenience
@jawnsy
Convenience is why SCADA systems are accessible on the Internet 🫣

+ Cash and Card
@lxskllr
I'm cash everywhere aside from online purchases.

Loyalty Card = Tracking
@lauren
Given the widespread use of loyalty cards to get the best prices, even paying with cash doesn't stop tracking.

Marketing should be illegal?
@kmstrube81
I wonder if computers were a mistake and if marketing should be illegal.

TRUST #BIGTECH?
@lpar
I trust Apple more than I trust random merchants, though. I wouldn't trust Google, since they're an advertising company.

SMALL BUSINESS SAME AS BIG BUSINESS (just smaller scale?)
@aapis / https://mastodon.world/@aapis/113844878648939499
uh yes, duh? This hypothetical woman is trying to profit, yes? She’s trying to make her #business a success, yes? So are the Starbucks execs, the only difference is scale. If this woman had the power and #capital available to Starbucks, what would be different about her stores? #Capitalism

CAN'T TRUST GOVERNMENT
@dangoodin
... the #government in my country is 100% dysfunctional ...
Self remedies are the best sort of remedies. #DIY
... Expecting #governments to provide all the answers is also a losing battle. https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/113845620795365821

GOVERNMENTS FOR THE LONG-TERM WAY
@wavefunction
Governments are the only means we have to actually "win" the battle. If it's you versus a corporation, you're already losing. They will always have more power and resources than an individual and will always spend more #money than you to make it their way.

RISK AS AN EXCUSE?
@dangoodin
The people complaining about having cash stolen are usually the same ones carrying an $800 phone in their pocket.

#CASH NEEDED #LEGAL PROTECTION
@shansterable@c.im
In 2023, the King County council in #Washington state voted to require #retail businesses to accept cash because it was becoming such an issue.

LESS TAXES
@tyn
defund the #state!

GIFT CERT / CARD @epicdemiologist
large gift #certificate (via #check)

CASH COST TIME / ACCOUNTING AFTER
@jarek@mastodon.online
Handling cash costs money too... Accounting... translates to employee #time... I think your local #merchant is naive.
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...(costs of processing cash, costs of #bookkeeping, ease with which cash can be skimmed off by employees, risk of robbery, etc). @thomasareed

SMALL CONSIDERATIONS HARD TO COUNT
@bluGill
It is hard to figure out what the real cost of cash is as so many of those things seem like little and so you don't count.

Tipping considerations...
@thomasareed
#tipping a lot more personal, private, and potentially more deliberate.

CASH FOR THOSE WITH NO BANK
...businesses that don't accept cash are being #discriminatory against people who don't have access to banks accounts, such as homeless, extreme low income, or newcomers to our country. It's a way of "keeping the riffraff out" their businesses. #discrimination
@OhOkKay

MONERO ALTERNATIVE
even #Monero would be less expensive than #CreditCards!
@kkarhan

CASH RECEIPTS
A lot of restaurants in #Germany won’t produce a receipt if you pay in cash.
@canleaf

Above posts from thread: https://linuxrocks.online/@rose/113844858402063933