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Huh. No more cash tips. No $20 in a birthday card. Sorry homeless people, go die in a gutter (preferably in a back alley)!
Lost your device? Too bad. Can't lock that card or use woogle pay, good luck borrowing someone's when they work all the time.
The homeless have already graduated to qr codes in china. I'm pretty sure something similar will happen in the rest of the world.
Oh hey! USA.
I mean, its been happening. Look at food delivery apps.
Homeless people have phones, well, they have cheap phones, but still a phone. They could probably set up a Cashapp/Venmo. Some places still gives free (government subsidized) phones, most of the US does, homeless people are definitely qualified to get them (as long as the current administration doesn't gut it 👀)
And even if the government guts the free government phone programs, there are still many cheap options. For example, in the US, there are very cheap usable phones that are like $50 or less. They are locked phones, but its the reason why they are so cheap. They could get the cheapest plan just to have usable number, and just hang out near a mcdonalds and use their wifi. There's Moto G Play that's $30 at a local Walmart/Target type stores. Won't be fun to use (with all the lag), but good enough to use Cashapp or Venmo.
ITT: people who have never known homeless people that live* in food deserts with no fast food other than Lance crackers from the convenience store seven miles away, and one cell tower* serving two counties. I'm not being hyperbolic.
Oh lol, I've lived in cities most of my life, probably why I never think from a rural perspective.
It happens. Eta: where I live, people have to have a permanent physical and mailing address to receive services. A homeless guy asked me during a trip to town for$2 to get a piece of chicken from the had station recently. I didn't have it and felt so so bad.