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byPowercntrl ( 458442 ) writes:
Is there really any reason we can't just make pennies out of plastic instead? Personally, I haven't used cash in ages anyway so I'm really neither here nor there on running out of pennies, but it seems like if the problem is just that they cost too much to manufacture, make them out of something cheaper.
byserviscope_minor ( 664417 ) writes:
Or just scrap them as a denomination. I'm in the UK where pennies are worth fractionally more. It is now worth considerably less in real terms than the 1/2 p coin when that was scrapped. I, personally in favour of scrapping copper coinage completely. Round the tally to the closest 5 and be done with it.
byAmiMoJo ( 196126 ) writes:
I don't even regularly carry cash anymore. Phone generates a random credit card number for anonymity when shopping, that's good enough.
byViol8 ( 599362 ) writes:
"Phone generates a random credit card number for anonymity when shopping"
Huh? How can you pay with some random card number? And no payment method is anonymous , you simply move who knows from the shop to apple/google and your bank still knows you spent money either way.
Also I don't understand people who pay with a phone when contactless bank cards are simpler to use and faster. Just smacks of showing off.
bypsmears ( 629712 ) writes:
Also I don't understand people who pay with a phone when contactless bank cards are simpler to use and faster. Just smacks of showing off.
For most people I know that do this, it's just one less thing to carry - they'll have the phone with them anyway, so why carry cards/cash as well?
byViol8 ( 599362 ) writes:
Because not everywhere accepts apple or google for payments and if you're phone is lost or stoken you're screwed. Also it means giving apple or google your bank details in the first place.
bypsmears ( 629712 ) writes:
Because not everywhere accepts apple or google for payments and if you're phone is lost or stoken you're screwed. Also it means giving apple or google your bank details in the first place.
Well maybe - just maybe - for the people that dojust carry the phone - all the places where they need to make payments do take payments by phone! And maybe (rightly or wrongly) those people don't have your misgivings about giving their credit card details to Apple/Google. And let's face it, if your cash/cards are lost/stolen, you are equally screwed.
You don't have to agree with their reasons. But they're fairly easy to understand, and there's no element of showing off (I'm not even sure how that would work
bydfghjk ( 711126 ) writes:
" And let's face it, if your cash/cards are lost/stolen, you are equally screwed."
It's not about theft, that is only one problem. Are you suggesting if you can't solve every problem, don't bother solving any? I mean, "let's face it", why bother paying for anything at all?
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bypsmears ( 629712 ) writes:
" And let's face it, if your cash/cards are lost/stolen, you are equally screwed."
It's not about theft, that is only one problem. Are you suggesting if you can't solve every problem, don't bother solving any?
No, I'm suggesting that some people feel that for them, carrying extra cards is—on balance—not likely to solve enough problems for them to be worth the extra inconvenience.
I mean, "let's face it", why bother paying for anything at all?
You're right! Some people don't carry any means of payment at all. Sounds pretty inconvenient to me, but, if it works for them *shrug*...
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