Yeah in a cashless society things like that can't work well. In Germany cash is king, you can't go out without. In France it is mandated that shops accept at least 2 means of payments (among cash, card, check or wire transfer), and only cash and cards have enough safety and speed that shops and restaurants want to use it.
Yeah it's hard to justify carrying coins around, they're not worth much, whereas euro coins still carry some value (1ā¬/2ā¬).
When I arrived in NYC a few years ago, I got cash from the ATM and then tried to take a bus to our airbnb in Brooklyn, it was $2.75 per ticket, only payable in coins... like we'd have 44 quarters in our pockets :-)
It's surprising to me US carts don't have to be unlocked by a coin (which you get back when you lock your cart again), it's like that in every supermarket I know in France and Germany and probably many other European countries.
You can misbehave but it costs you a little bit, and if you do someone has the opportunity to make a buck off you by cleaning after you.
Definitely feeling great here, I moved out of Reddit right when the API sheitshow started and never look back!
Also, I'm donating to my instance's admin and to the open source dev of lemmy, so I feel compelled to use it even more because I pay for a great service :D
The solution for this is in the movie itself: take up a new hobby, improve on it as far as you can, make each same-y day worth being lived, add to your routine and your skill set
morgunkorn @ morgunkorn @discuss.tchncs.de Posts 9Comments 571Joined 2 yr. ago
they can even take off their teeth!