Sorry, I'm not paying with an app. If the tech giants want my credit card transactions they'll have to buy them from data brokers and deanonymize them like everyone else.

> Mr. Brender [...] said his friend made him a sign with a Venmo username written on it, but no one has stopped to use it, and he doesn’t even know how to access his account.

If he can't access his account, how does he know nobody has paid him? Somebody could have walked by, made a mental note of his Venmo username, and paid him a few minutes later.

I hope it's his actual friend, and not just someone taking the money for themselves.

Title in the HN post doesn’t match the NYTimes article’s (current?) title: “A Tap-to-Pay Society Is Leaving These New Yorkers Behind”

The article’s tdlr reads:

As fewer people carry cash, vendors, street performers and people experiencing homelessness and unemployment are at a disadvantage.

Related:

Who still uses cash?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45894145

It is unlawful to refuse to accept cash at any NYC store to my knowedge.

New York is the only major metro where I have seen a significant cash advantage as of late. (Feel somewhat qualified having spent months in Chicago, New Orleans, Seattle, Austin, Asheville, Savannah, and Atlanta over the last five years).

Cash discount at every gas station and across thousands of bodegas across the city.

"It's thirteen hundred with tax - if you got cash I can take a hundred off"

There are still a shit ton of cash only establishments. Institutional spots and then cheap places too.

The problem is about people not carrying cash because they use their phone or credit card to pay for everything. I fall under this category.