How do you pay for concert tickets?

[jean]

Now this is where I'd walk out in protest! Not even one of those little freezers where you take your tub to the bar to pay? What kind of Third World place are you living in?!

I hardly dare admit it, but no proper chairs either - the restaurant downstairs had taken them all - only benches

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I hardly dare admit it, but no proper chairs either - the restaurant downstairs had taken them all - only benches

I don't dare ask about the loos!

[jean]

I avoided the one with a hole in the door.

[Serial_Apologist]

I avoided the one with a hole in the door.

This "hostility" to cash payment - like the one for accepting cheques - is certainly catching on; it has put paid to the annual street collections I assist on behalf of Dystonia research: the group which I much enjoyed helping has disbanded, and I shall miss 'em all. Ironically they made more this year in Croydon's Whitgift mall than on any of the street days last year, and this was on the weekend following the General Election!

Oddball remarks on the practical difficulties of dealing with the cash, but it's been done ever since money became the commonest means of exchange, undeterred by highwaymen! Capitalism is of course at the root of the rationale for now getting rid of cash, the grounds being competitive productivity which runs through everything like a sore, from computerisation that were it not for it putting "your" company at a competitive advantage over the labour-intensive one across town - because machines can make cars faster with one man on the on-off switch - would put yours out of business - to prioritising reducing NHS costs, namely speeding up nursing productivity by employing less of 'em, even though nurses don't "make" anything except people well if given the chance and time to be humane. If you've got money you have to employ people to manage it, and that costs money. We can't afford money, we're leaving the EU!!!

It has to stop somewhere along the line, it really does, because profits are made on labour power, the one expenditure among all overheads they control by class warfare, so if they get rid of labour power their profit source goes. Thank heavens there's still what we used to call the Third World, eh? - where labour and other resources are enforcedly cheap - or has the term been made non-PC? Oh yes, it's the developing world now, isn't it? Not being credit-worthy I bet they still have to use money - those wealthy enough to have got beyond the barter stage of historical so-called evolution.

I'm on the side of jean's friend. Who needs principles - what good do they do anyone?

Sorry, rant over.

[P. G. Tipps]

Capitalism is of course at the root of the rationale for now getting rid of cash ...

Of course ... capitalism, by it's very nature, is always evolving and adapting which is precisely why it has survived for so long, I most humbly suggest.

The capitalist system depends on a steady stream of new ideas and inventions in which to invest and prosper and if that means ultimately ditching cash for something economically more efficient and profitable then so be it.

Capitalism is not at all like Socialism, S_A ...

[jean]

...I'm on the side of jean's friend...

You do seem to share his political principles!

But is your erstwhile street collection now being done by card instead?

[oddoneout]

Oddball remarks on the practical difficulties of dealing with the cash, but it's been done ever since money became the commonest means of exchange, undeterred by highwaymen!

I wasn't just thinking of the getting mugged on the way home. It has to be sorted, counted(ideally second counted), bagged and recorded by someone, and where casual staff are employed this will probably not fall within their remit.
By the way, I may well be an oddball but I'm not sure you know me well enough to make that judgement......

[Serial_Apologist]

You do seem to share his political principles!

But is your erstwhile street collection now being done by card instead?

The group disbanded last month, and we all said our sad goodbyes, though I keep in touch with one of them, who lives not far from me.

[Serial_Apologist]

I wasn't just thinking of the getting mugged on the way home. It has to be sorted, counted(ideally second counted), bagged and recorded by someone, and where casual staff are employed this will probably not fall within their remit.
By the way, I may well be an oddball but I'm not sure you know me well enough to make that judgement......

But I feel I know you well enough to be able to count on you.

[jean]

The group disbanded last month, and we all said our sad goodbyes, though I keep in touch with one of them, who lives not far from me.

But you don't say what was the nature of the 'hostility' to cash that put paid to your street collections!

It is not of course unknown for street collections to end up in the pockets of the collectors.

[Serial_Apologist]

But you don't say what was the nature of the 'hostility' to cash that put paid to your street collections!

It is not of course unknown for street collections to end up in the pockets of the collectors.

Oh I see. No hostility, just a feeling that people weren't being as generous as previously, possibly because they didn't carry cash around with them anymore when shopping in big centres like the Whitgift, preferring to use credit cards etc., and that this situation was likely to get worse.

[cloughie]

Oh I see. No hostility, just a feeling that people weren't being as generous as previously, possibly because they didn't carry cash around with them anymore when shopping in big centres like the Whitgift, preferring to use credit cards etc., and that this situation was likely to get worse.

Pinless, unfortunately, seems to be being plugged. I thing it is a recipe for more fraud, and I'll stick to cash, cheque or sticking the number in, depending on where I am and what I'm buying. Down here in the Duchy cash seems to still be a popular method of payment.

[MrGongGong]

Now this is where I'd walk out in protest! Not even one of those little freezers where you take your tub to the bar to pay? What kind of Third World place are you living in?!

But you would hang about on a railway station platform in November ?

[Pulcinella]

But you would hang about on a railway station platform in November ?

Perhaps for a Brief Encounter, yes.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But you would hang about on a railway station platform in November ?

(Very near a pub, IIRC)

And no problems paying for the gig, either.