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Re:Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free by avidiax on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @12:11PM (#26400923)
Even something as seemingly innocuous as milk and eggs can be a big deal. Suddenly spending more? Maybe you have guests. Maybe you are hiding refugees. Might be innocuous, might be life and death.
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Re:Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free by nivenkos on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @12:14PM (#26400959)
Maybe just don't have a government where that's an issue, rather than holding back the technological development of society.

Why use mobile phones or credit cards? Or ID cards? or ISP subscriptions? It could all be tracked! Let's just do everything by landlines and faxes like Germany...

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Re:Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free by hnbroseph on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @02:09PM (#26402543)
> Maybe just don't have a government where that's an issue

oh, good idea. but i think that's quite literally the entire point of people's concerns in the first place.

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