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[–] Someguy89 165 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I'm not sure that has to do with privacy and more like "help us avoid paying income taxes." No one denies that cash is completely anonymous, but that's not the intent here. This is coming from a huge advocate for privacy, but to me this is a stretch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Agreed. That’s exactly what that is.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (21 children)

This has nothing to do with cashless society, it's because they don't want to pay their taxes.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol that’s a tax evader, they save 20% and you save 10%, it’s the good old Italian tradition of “you don’t really need a receipt do you”

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[–] negativeyoda 39 points 1 year ago (52 children)

Someone doesn't want to pay fees or taxes. Privacy is just a convenient excuse

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You would not believe how many cash payments in the end customer food and service industry never make it to the books.

What's next? "Save the Planet! Save Paper! Get 5% off if you don't need an invoice!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes that's why I pay cash. To help out the small people!

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[–] epique 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I agree with the idea and I don't have this reaction else where but when I see the cash only signs in food places it just makes me jump to tax evasion. Don't know why it's only food places that give me that feeling.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This would be illegal some places.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (12 children)

If it would be 1-3%, I understand, because that's the fee for credit cards. But 10%?? Something is clearly wrong.

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[–] wahming 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Man, OP's comments in here are a ride. And I thought the tankies were bad

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (41 children)

It seems that crypto bros have begun to raid lemmy recently, and for raid i mean that yhey just have been coming in big quantities, since the other day i was talking bad about crypto and got downvoted a lot, which is weird since i thought most people here didnt like it since the fiasco of past 3 years on crypto and blockchain, and i got a lot of comments deffending it too.

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[–] Etterra 6 points 1 year ago

The cashless society thing is just idiotic religious superstition masquerading as legitimacy. A disgusting number of people still believe that "the number of the beast" from the Bible book of Revelations is literal in some way. Anything that makes paper money obsolete in favor of electronic, especially if it's an implant, is viewed by some in that capacity. It's stupid AF but then again so are religious literalists.

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