Re:San Francisco considers banning cashless Amazon stores
by awkward on Thursday March 21, 2019 @03:00PM
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There is a root cause fix - it's legal tender. Systems exist that accept legal tender in an automated way. The preservation of the bearer value of cash money is a more important principle than the preservation of amazon's marginal efficiency.
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Re:San Francisco considers banning cashless Amazon stores
by chillacy on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:43PM
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The fix is from the past. Cashless has lots of advantages, i don’t think 300 years from now money will be paper. (It wasn’t 300 years ago either). Technology changes, we should keep up with the times.
Re:San Francisco considers banning cashless Amazon stores
by dragonwriter on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:46PM
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> i don’t think 300 years from now money will be paper. (It wasn’t 300 years ago either).
Paper money is well over 1,000 years old, though it only became popular in Europe, IIRC, a little over 400 years ago.