Companies sure are hitting a low point when they “have to charge” 25 cents for using a card for transactions.
They say it is to “recover costs”
My rent went up last week and I received notification yesterday that I need to top up the rental bond by 4 times the amount of the rent increase.
McDonalds last week, the cashier was 5 cents short in my change and I asked for the 5 cents.
“Sheese, it is only 5 cents.”
“Goes both ways you know, If I was 5 cents short you would demand the money or I would not get the product”
Not sure it has to do with the capitalist system. In a socialist/communist system transactions had to be correct, too. But you’re right, it goes both ways. A cashier in a supermarket was dismissed because a bottle return receipt worth 120 cents was missing. And a bank reminded me almost 12 months after I had closed my account that I would still owe them 116 cents, which they had discovered only then.
I used where will it all end because I was of the thinking that many, many people will end up destitute under the current system.
When will it all end? The grab for money? Never.
Even though it may sound heretic I can’t help but ask what alternative system there is to replace the current one which is not based on money? What should it be based on instead so that people are motivated to lift a finger? I lived in such a system and it utterly failed.
Its not the system, its being content with your place within it that seems to be the problem, the system its self is partially responsible for this as its based greater expectations
That particular charge was ended by the government here when they stated that no charge may be levied by any payment card institution no matter what type of card it is. Now credit and debit cards transactions pass through without and visible charge added.
Someone has to pay. At my end it’s not the card user who has to pay for transactions but the company which accepts payment via this card. Smaller business are frequently rejecting the card, larger ones accept it. When doing business with those smaller firms I have the choice of either paying cash or taking my business elsewhere.
I am still a great believer in cash whenever possible as usually some kind of cash discount can be obtained if the trader is approached in the right manner.
What should happen is, all the money in the world should be divided equally between every person……then, when I’ve spent my share, should be divided equally again……
