We living in dystopia already

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[–]RankAssPalace 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

People who dont carry cash have no light in their eyes.

[–]Gravi 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Couldn't imagine buyin without cash, I know it's very handy and quick it is, but all the damn tracking and shit is truly dystopian, cash is untrackable, yes it is much more uncomfortable to handle but to hell with it, I don't wanna be 1984'd for every damn thing I buy.

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    [–]Ethnocrat 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Since 1945.

    [–]MilanorSwolf 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Well people are already being poisoned and killed in multiple ways so it is a very brutal society we are in...

    [–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    What's going on here? Aldi take cash except in the self-service checkouts, don't they?

    Is he just jumping the queue by paying at the service desk instead? That's unbritish.

    [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Almost appears that on this occasion, they requested payment by card and refused cash as an option. It was a fairly common practice during the harsher COVID measures to reduce physical contact, so perhaps it was from that time.

    The UK government has ultimately decided against enforcement of payment types to include cash, allowing any business to refuse a payment method at their leisure. It's unsurprising considering their interest in going fully digital with the CBDC.

    [–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    It doesn't look to be a time of the harsher covid measures because no one is wearing a mask.

    I get why if you're only buying one item you might not want to queue for one of the service desks. But getting a credit or debit card or queuing ... Or not buying strawberries at aldi, isn't overwhelmingly dystopian.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    No, it isn't overwhelmingly dystopian in the clip. People obviously exaggerate individual situations to highlight potential future developments which deter from what we know of as normal, such as the obligation of retail establishments accepting cash, compared with what could become a reality should things get out of hand. I would for example, consider the situation in China to be dystopian, where your digital purchase history and social media activity combined with I'd tracking and facial recognition can influence your social credit score and can impact on aspects of your life such as freedom of movement. Where do we draw the line between warning of what is to come and having it already gone too far?

    [–]Be_incorrigible 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    My fucking hero.

    [–]UncleWillard56 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I don't use cash very much anymore, but I don't see how these dumb businesses think that you can just ignore what is, as the man said, "legal tender." We're not ready for that yet and why would you ever want to discourage people from shopping at your store, let alone be a fucking narc and calling the police on them? Some African or Indian bitch too. Like that would ever work in their home countries.

    [–]g0ldfish 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    The last time strawberries cost £1.19 (in the UK), Thatcher was in the process of kicking people out of their homes and their jobs. If that's a recent video, hallelujah!