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mcsniff 6 hours ago

If a shop won't accept cash, I just leave.

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rdevilla 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You weren't transacting at all in Toronto during COVID then.

This is the endgame of surveillance capitalism: submission, or opting out. Few can, or care enough to, do the latter.

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lolstarz 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm as concerned about the surveillance state as anyone but let's keep our history constrained by fact. I live in Toronto too and it was still true that for many, many places cash was fine. Cash discounts are super common in various parts of the city and this was still true during COVID.

	▲	rdevilla 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> let's keep our history constrained by fact. I live in Toronto too This is hilarious. Toronto has no respect for facts, it has shown it will just fabricate histories out of whole cloth. Nevertheless I'm tired of people citing anecdata and personal experience when upthread I have linked to a CBC article discussing a Bank of Canada report "arguing that cash-based transactions have plummeted from 54 per cent in 2009 to 10 per cent as of 2021." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canada-sleepwalking-in...

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stronglikedan 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> You weren't transacting at all in Toronto during COVID then.

There's always someone will to take cash. It's still king, despite the naysayers.