Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and elderly? (2019)

Re:Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and e... by pigeons on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:35PM (#33240999)

In several ways such as reliability and call quality, land lines from several years ago are a far superior technology to current cellphones.

Of course most landline calls today go through dubious VoIP links and poorly maintained copper infrastructure, which is why I qualify with "from several years ago."

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Re:Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and e... by Eupraxias on Monday October 17, 2022 @09:33PM (#33241943)

Were it not for this, I would go back to the landline that I enjoyed until recently.

It regularly strikes me as absurd that quality was so much better on an old landline. It's an odd trade-off for which I would never have voted.

Even still, my main complaint is over the loss of minor things like pay-phones. I think I'll always bemoan the idea of a telephone number being associated with a person, rather than a location.

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Re:Does cashless society discriminate against the poor and e... by midasuni on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:52AM (#33244647)

Quality on a PLain Old Telephone System is better, but quality of a zoom/teams/WhatsApp/etc voice call is better than POTS in my experience

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