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Lesro's avatar

Don't forget the disabled. Many of whom cannot use digital devices of any kind. I have a disabled sister who is unable to use a digital device. She is a good reader, and can read signs and almost anything, and her reading comprehension is good. She has no use for a QR code..and has no idea what it is. The disabled are left out of this equation entirely. I don't use a smartphone, by choice, because I feel I am worth more than data and want to be paid handsomely for my private and intimate information. If life gets difficult without a smart device, so be it. I don't care. In New York State, by law, businesses have to take cash. It was written into an discrimination bill. Because more than 15% of the population is bank-less and have a cash only existence. This is big tech and silicon valley getting it's way, and forcing onto everyone, once again, something no one ever asked for. Just Like self driving cars(failed) and and other useless shit that no body's wants, except Wall Street!

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David Turner's avatar

Sneering at those who excessively travel is a bit of middle class culture war I've engaged in since a kid and still do. I've never bought into the alleged social benefits of traveling. Beyond that remark, agreed. Increasingly delegating everything to the smartphone is degrading. Happy that Julia Salazar stood against the MTA going for cashless toolbooth. I wish there was more movement to pushback against QR codes and these other frictionless ways of interacting with the world.

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