More restaurants and cafés refuse to accept cash — that’s not a good thing
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More restaurants and cafés refuse to accept cash — that’s not a good thing
- November 13, 2018
- Bill Maurer, anthropology, via Grub Street, Nov. 13, 2018
“We already have so many forms of stigma and discrimination in this country,” says Bill Maurer, a UC Irvine professor who also directs the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, “and now we are adding mode of payment to the list — if we start marking belonging by ‘means of payment,’ that’s a big problem.” Maurer, who coordinates research in over 40 countries about the impact of new payment technologies on people’s well-being, encourages everyone to seriously think about the long-term ramifications of a “cashless revolution” — but that doesn’t seem to bother cash-free advocates too much.
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