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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.
Agreed. That’s exactly what that is.
This has nothing to do with cashless society, it's because they don't want to pay their taxes.
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”
Someone doesn't want to pay fees or taxes. Privacy is just a convenient excuse
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!"
Yes that's why I pay cash. To help out the small people!
You end up hurting the small people because less taxes paid means there is less for healftcare, social work...
Man, OP's comments in here are a ride. And I thought the tankies were bad
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.
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.
If it would be 1-3%, I understand, because that's the fee for credit cards. But 10%?? Something is clearly wrong.
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.
