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There needs to be a law that forbids mandating cellphones and creditcards for ordinary business transactions. My apartment started requiring an app to enter the premises and use another app so wash and dry your cloth and then required an app to enter the place you wash your cloth. I came home one day after a series of missed and delayed flights, tired and sleepy at 3am after waiting eons for uber at the airport when my phone finally died and at 3am I could not enter my own apartment because my phone was dead and there is no one else at that time to open the hate for me.

In these cases, technology is creating not solving problems.

Ask yourself this: As great as smartphones are, do you want a future where everyone is required to purchase one, an a cell plan to exist in society, to engage in commerce, enjoy shelter, health care and security?

I would even go so far as to say cash and physical paper should be supported by any business and government department.

parent _8j50 4 years ago

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