I see people using their phone for public transit, I see most people using their phone when buying groceries, that shit makes no sense to me. Why would you want your money to run out of batteries so that it can spy on you?

Pre-pandemic I only used cash, now many places no longer even take it, at least in LA, which I didn't even know was legal. It just works and is not hard to use in any way.

@jonny The usual reasons places don't want to handle cash:
- Counting out change takes time, so it takes slightly longer to serve customers
- Handling coins cost money; the consumed/received quantity is unbalanced and differs between denominations so you need to buy coin rolls and those have an extra cost attached
- Employees can make mistakes and/or 'appropriate' cash

So yeah it was never about whether it's hard to use, capitalists just don't like it because it's not to their advantage so they'll make up complexity if they need to, to convince people to pay digitally

@joepie91 @jonny imo the biggest difficulty is so many people paying with the biggest notes, rather than taking any effort to give an amount close to the cost, which leads to a needlessly high drain on the smaller notes and coins in the register

@Ember @jonny When I worked retail, people often made an effort to make 'round' change (eg. giving a 5 euro note plus a 10 cent coin so that I could change back whole euros) and it didn't solve the imbalance, this seems to just be a fundamental thing with change (and the imbalance is different for different industries!)

@Ember @jonny Like at discount stores and market stalls here, people often pay in small change and so they have too much of it, but at supermarkets and railway food places they pay mainly with bills so there's not *enough* change