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I’ve seen a few in Salem. That’s interesting. I only use cards but I don’t think refusing cash should be allowed
My thoughts on it too; it really hits people who are either underbanked or unbanked entirely. Not to mention the fact that US currency specifically says on it “For all debts public and private”.
I use to never see the issue. I have a homeless dude 20 bucks and he asked me to buy him lunch instead because the place didn’t take cash.
I never thought about it since I don’t use cash much. So yeah it sunk in
Glad you helped somebody and he was truly hungry.
When I worked downtown I was often approached by people asking for money because they were hungry. Made it a habit to never refuse but always offer to buy them food rather than give them cash. Probably 75% of the time they’d end up turning me down because they wanted the cash instead. Several times they went with me to the restaurant or other food vendor, the whole time walking there trying to convince me to not waste my time and just give them the cash. A few times I ended buying food only to have them disappear and not even take it, and then I’d just give it to some random homeless guy I’d find, and that was always appreciated.
The word debts in that line is the real issue there. Most transactions are not debts. What’s really funny is I don’t know anyone that has or can pay off a credit card, essentially a debt machine, with cash. It’s not like you can really mail cash.
My only issue with this is that my friend’s small business got robbed of all cash. It took a week of card-only transactions to have enough in the accounts to withdraw cash and be able to make change for people.
It took way longer before any insurance paid out.
Going card-only was the only way they stayed in business until then and made it work.
Outside of that, yeah, I get it.
