My mobile device is a wifi-only junker phone I sometimes remember to use to take shitty pictures.
I went to get a free app in an app store. It asked for payment info. I still do not have that app.
I am the outlier
People are out here wondering why #revolution is not being organized? When will the masters let us use their tools?
https://vagabondexperience.substack.com/p/to-revolt-commandeer-meta
#anarchism #capitalism #resist #developer #apple #google #meta
"I am the outlier"
Correct. Because you are willing to bear a cost to uphold your preferences and principles. That's a good quality to have.
Too many people are out there whining about this or that company doing something they don't like...and then buying from them. How many people "hate" Amazon...but have a prime subscription, endlessly buying luxuries?
Part of the beauty of capitalism is that you can vote with your wallet. The price? People need to be principled to do so.
@AlexanderKingsbury Wow this is one of the best answers I have heard in a minute. People usually just get mad and call names!
I must disagree with manipulative nature of these gatekeepers. The lack of "free market" in the free market.
You cannot vote with your wallet when your device IS society's wallet. What good are principles when vendors do not accept cash?
I do not admire people with a game-score hoarding condition stagnating the economy y'all insist upon pretending is natural or real.
If you want to complain about the markets we have not being free enough, great. I want MUCH more free markets than we have. But, to me, the solution is "make the markets free", not "destroy the free market".
As to vendors not accepting cash...that's a relatively tiny fraction of society. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but even when it does...that's more of a "vendor does not want to associate with me because I only have cash" thing. I generally prefer voluntary interactions.
@AlexanderKingsbury do you go to many live music events and purchase from vendors in the US?
Do you visit coffee shops, small cafes and wherever else paying with cash very often? Holy fuck!
And if so -- did you have any left for the busker working at the corner?
Nearly everything I buy is in the US. I go to very few live events of any kind, music or otherwise.
Coffee shops? Yes. Small cafes? Yes. I've never once been to one that didn't take cash. I see very few buskers.
@AlexanderKingsbury I didn't ask if you believe they accept cash. I asked if you go around paying with cash very often?
no. not with cash exclusively or at all.
and I am not surprised. it is the least convenient.
I go around paying with cash often enough to know how widely accepted it is. "Very often" is a little vague, but I am essentially never outside my home without cash, and I use it routinely.
@AlexanderKingsbury look, I live in the rural south where the cost of living is the lowest and our kids can't read.
I am telling you, ever increasingly cash is not accepted. Even here. I did not say never accepted -- less often accepted as currencies go increasingly imaginary. And 3% poofs out of the economy every swipe, tap and jiggle. Out of circulation into an unused hoard.
Hundreds of articles state the fact that cash usage is plummeting.
By design. Nobody thinks about that 3%
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