"Can't charge extra for using a credit card" is a contractual condition imposed by the credit card companies. If anything there should be a law voiding such conditions as contrary to sound public policy. Why should cash or debit card users in a competitive market be charged extra to subsidize rewards for credit card users, for example?

Well, there is a law that states you can't charge extra for using a certain credit card.

If you want to charge for credit card payments, the same fee has to apply to all cards you accept.

Built in Sacramento https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/general/credit-card-surcharges

It is always convenient for businesses to have the legislature enforce their preferred contract conditions in statutory law, but this particular statute sounds like it is unenforceable.

Because they don't. Handling cash is expensive, and typically costs more than credit card fees.

Yes it is.

Perhaps Netflix is not _breaking_ a law, which itself may have been written by "dilettantes", but this action certainly disabuses us of the notion that Netflix has any intention to adhere to the spirit of the law, which was to reduce racial and gender-based salary gaps.

The "spirit of the law" is to bend reality. Laws are always well intended but are often, to put it bluntly, stupid. If it were really that easy, we'd be living in paradise now. Just write another law!

The only thing wrong with the current situation is, unfortunately, anyone naive enough to believe that this law was supposed to have the intended effect. Otherwise, it's functioning exactly as any sensible person would have predicted.

Is it flouting a law though?

The credit card thing mostly isn't a law, it's part of the merchant agreements. There's a few states with a "no fees" law (which all allow cash discounts):

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2021/04...

Written by the same people that gave us the “everything causes cancer” warnings?

> Written by the same people that gave us the “everything causes cancer” warnings?

No, Prop 65 was written by a lawyer for the Environmental Defense Fund and proposed and passed as an initiative measure, SB 1162 was written by Senator Monique Limon and adoptef by the State Legislature. Different people, different process.

I presume they meant people who share similar values and beliefs, not literally the same individuals. Specifically, the kind of liberal values associated with California, since the state is often mocked for said "cancer" warnings outside of the state (or other states with similar values).

The typical cash discount at any gas station in California that I've seen is 10 cents.

I get 3% back on gas purchases from my credit card.

Question: At what price per gallon does it stop making cents (heh) to buy with cash?

Hint: California hasn't had gas at that price for many years already.