No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the non tech-savvy

Re:No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the no... by dmazzoni on Thursday August 24, 2023 @11:37AM (#37250104)

I've never been to such an event where using your smartphone to pay was mandatory, it's usually just much faster and more convenient.

At many smaller venues, a credit card (or tap-to-pay) is required, and I'm 100% in favor of that. We should be doing more to help provide unbanked people with credit cards. Requiring small businesses to deal with cash is increasingly a burden; cashless enables them to save a lot of time and money.

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Re:No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the no... by sneak on Thursday August 24, 2023 @02:37PM (#37252866)

This is the wrong approach, because the laws around payment cards require they be strongly linked to ID, allowing point and click shutdown/freezing of anyone's ability to transact.

When you can't pay a lawyer, and you can't pay a taxi to get to your lawyer, and you can't buy food, and it's all because the government pointed a finger without evidence, prior to trial, the system is a bad one.

The ability to use cash must be preserved. You really don't want to live in the world where the only payments are the ones the government explicitly allows.

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