Cash provides essential fallback when digital payments break down, Payment Choice Alliance points out
  • Enkrod@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    Why wouldn’t I be able to pay cash without power? If people did it in BCE, I can certainly do it now.

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 months ago

      Because the equipment used to record sales uses electricity.

      Do you really think the 12yo cashier is going to get out a pad and pen and rithmatic your purchase?

      • Enkrod@feddit.org
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        4 months ago

        12yo? What’re your child labor laws? Arithmetic? We’re talking simple addition here. I manned a cash register before, it’s doable even without the computer. Just takes a wee bit longer.

        • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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          4 months ago

          Have you been to a shop in the last 20 years?

          I’m genuinely curious how you envisage that everyone could pay cash during a power outage.

          Items don’t have price stickers. Cashiers couldn’t reliable total up more than a few items. Customers couldn’t be given itemised receipts.

          In an end-of-days style apocalypse, sure trade would carry on, but the existence of “cash” wouldn’t be relevant.

          As I started off by saying, this is such a lame reason to argue for the existence of cash.