{"id":138104,"date":"2019-03-08T17:53:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T00:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138104"},"modified":"2019-03-08T18:10:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T01:10:40","slug":"will-that-be-cash-or-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/08\/will-that-be-cash-or-charge.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Will that be cash or charge?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of cashless stores that only support plastic and other non-cash ways of paying is, for me, not a problem. I only pay cash when forced to; being forced to keep a supply of cash for various purposes is, for me, a PitA. It&#8217;s far easier just to swipe and be done with it, paying my bill at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>In my privilege, I never considered that such a shop might be a problem for the not-insubstantial number of poor people who <em>don&#8217;t have<\/em> <em>credit cards<\/em>, or for whom the charges on a debit card are significant.<\/p>\n<p>At least not until I read about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/03\/08\/philadelphia-cashless-store-ban\/\">cities that are beginning to ban such arrangements<\/a>, and why. Which, on reflection, makes a lot of sense, at least as long as we&#8217;re a society where some people\u00a0<em>have<\/em> to use cash.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49374\" style=\"width: 426px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tom+and+Jerry+money.gifimgmax=660.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-49374 size-full\" title=\"Tom-and-Jerry-money.gifimgmax660\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tom+and+Jerry+money.gifimgmax=660.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When having cash meant you were rich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of cashless stores that only support plastic and other non-cash ways of paying is, for me, not a problem. I only pay cash when forced to; being forced to keep a supply of cash for various purposes is, for me, a PitA. It&#8217;s far easier just to swipe and be done with it, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/08\/will-that-be-cash-or-charge.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Will that be cash or charge?&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[528,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tom+and+Jerry+money.gifimgmax=660.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7953,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/13\/check_please.html","url_meta":{"origin":138104,"position":0},"title":"Check, please?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 13-Jul-05 12:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A fun list of waiter rants. 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