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Patrick
2025 Dec 14, 9:58am
Patrick
2025 Dec 14, 9:58am
Sure, electronic payments help stop robberies, but make everyone far more subject to arbitrary government control.
The government gets:
1. to know what you bought
2. to know where you are right now, and send police to your location
3. the ability to stop your purchase for political reasons
It's creates an extreme danger of absolute technocratic control, something much worse than the threat of robbery.
The left will use this power to suppress dissent.
The government gets:
1. to know what you bought
2. to know where you are right now, and send police to your location
3. the ability to stop your purchase for political reasons
It's creates an extreme danger of absolute technocratic control, something much worse than the threat of robbery.
The left will use this power to suppress dissent.
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Patrick
2025 Dec 14, 10:01am
Patrick
2025 Dec 14, 10:01am
And anyway, electronic payments actually facilitate certain kinds of robbery, as the video shows.
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They have a window where you can order a beer while you are waiting. So I ordered a beer and they refused to take cash.
OK, I wanted the beer, so I paid with a credit card. Then the total had an extra $1.50 on it. I asked about that and was told that I added a tip. I specifically did not add a tip because I was pissed that they don't take cash.
I got the manager and made him remove the tip.
We are rapidly approaching the CCP utopia of complete tracking of all citizens at all times.
Lesson: call ahead and make sure a restaurant will take cash. If they will not, don't go there.