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I'm worried that in the future we will be forced to use smartphones just like in China (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by ULTIMATEDEAD@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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In China, you can't exist without a smartphone, because for all existential things you have to do (paying bills, buying tickets etc.) , you are forced to use the almighty wechat app. Smartphones are a tool to manipulate and to spy on the population. It is a tool utilized by the ruling class, to control the masses. I hate the future and I hate "progress".

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[–] postmeridiem@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UK & EU loves this stuff though, so they won't mandate you have to use a single phone app for everything, but they will slowly remove your ability to do anything without your phone. You'll just end up with a shittier version of China's system with a billion shitty apps.

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I was visiting Berlin last week. So many pubs are cashless now. And so many more cafés have this infuriating QR code menu-card. Meanwhile in Stuttgart, many reataurants are cash-only, which is almost as annoying.