tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post8735109055651156478..comments2024-03-25T15:07:41.959+00:00Comments on Nigeness: PlasticNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-11953429207617737182011-11-01T21:55:00.948+00:002011-11-01T21:55:00.948+00:00Never mind the fact that so many of those who use ...Never mind the fact that so many of those who use cash machines seem to be chronically befuddled about how to use them, to me they are a source of an incremental cummulative stress that will ultimately end in revolution or Armageddon or something. Have you noticed how we all go through a certain anxiety about whether the damn things will accept our digital supplications? We stare at them nervously, praying they won't decline us and bring shame on our kin for generations to come, even if we know in some non-virtual reality there is plenty of cash to cover it. I always feel my relationship with the shop clerk has been downgraded from wealthy lord of the manor to nervous supplicant. It's enough to make a chap revisit Lenin on class war.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15836910211382887430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-88094184332434240512011-10-31T16:46:03.315+00:002011-10-31T16:46:03.315+00:00But would poor payers in plastic frequent M & ...But would poor payers in plastic frequent M & S? Up in more northern parts, they tend to go to Tesco's or the Co-op, the latter being, despite its noble origins and aims, whoppingly expensive.Marynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-9429751267137082582011-10-31T16:43:00.349+00:002011-10-31T16:43:00.349+00:00An intriguing theory Mark - unintended consequence...An intriguing theory Mark - unintended consequences again...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-61422572969197432902011-10-31T15:48:43.976+00:002011-10-31T15:48:43.976+00:00Perhaps you have to be rich these days to use real...Perhaps you have to be rich these days to use real money. It means going to a bank or at least to an ATM and withdrawing actual cash (or being told you can't). If like most folks these days you don't have any money then at least you can buy some food by paying with plastic and juggling the CC accounts. The poor use plastic and pay astromonical interest on it, the rich use cash and go interest-free - the opposite of the effect intended, I'd guess.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.com