VENDING MACHINES ARE ONE OF the few things keeping us away from the dream of a cashless society.
Around 80% of the vending machines I'm seeing lately allow card payment. Where the hell does the author live?
this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
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Lol this is pretty much unheard of in germany. People here love cash.
Germany is always a weird mix of being modern and strangely medieval at times.
That and the fact that the only people who want a cashless society are the people charging card fees.
Also the businesses paying that card fee
I mean the article was written 8 years ago, so maybe they weren't as common?
How do we know about that vending machine from the first century? I suppose it's not around anymore. Did anyone mention it in their travel blog? Or did Heron archive the instruction manual?
"dream of cashless society" whose fucking dream is this? The people sitting in the panopticon?
There isn't a single society in the world where everyone wants a cashless distopia. And, fortunately, none exist