You can start by never asking the question, and being, on the internet.

Being honest: after Covid Crisis, things changed so fast that we didnt even had time to have an "critic analisis" about the changes - and didnt had chance to be heard.
It was imposed, not chosen.
And by that reason, I may include myself.

But hey,
Hows the wattter in the pool:

Originally posted by Affronter:

You can start by never asking the question, and being, on the internet.

It's not about me personally.

It's about a general obligation to be able to perform basic life tasks in the analog way for those who wish to do so.

Absolutely.

One time our new bank card hadn't arrived and the old one expired, so I went to pay my electric bill in cash.

They charge extra for cash payments! Oh, I argued, This says right here 'legal tender for all debts', why are you charging me for the privilege of paying my bill?

They waived the fee one time and I haven't paid them in cash since. Bastards.

Should there be a right to an analog life?

YES!!

But banks here in NZ make it real hard, They're removing money machines, closing banks.

Then there's the post office shops all disappearing.

Heck we only get mail three times a week, Used to be six.

Originally posted by The Future:

it's the future

God i feel old.

Originally posted by The Future:

it's the future

our future is the past . most people do prefer the intrinsic value of analogue, the marriage between a civilised society and the internet is honestly still in its honeymoon period.

personally i hope the future has less reliance on mobile devices, i really hate that i'm not allowed to even order a pizza unless i give them someones phone number

In most places you can still do that. It`s just lot more convenient and fast to do it electronically.

Lmao it aint like the 1970's. My dad used to talk alot about what it was like.

You could easily just live a life of nomadism, if you really wanted to. You could travel and stop in a town and go into a shop and ask.

"Hey you have jobs that need done today?"

You cant do that ♥♥♥♥ today, you need to submit a social security number, some tax info, yada yada yada. I guess if you know the right people you can work under the table, but again, totally different how it used to be.

♥♥♥♥ I laughed so hard in that episode of rick and morty where they are playing the simulator and the people watching rick play say something like "Look at this guy hes got dave off the grid with no social security number!".

Thats kinda my plan for retirement, since I got injured at work.

Basically just gonna go live in the woods, prolly be a short life, but who cares, after spending most of my life believing in society and trying to better myself.

I can safely say I had enough of all this.

You can join amish people

there should be no right, to make up rights.

Ask AI to make you a joke about the Amish Astronaut. Yes a lot of stuff is old analog stuff for when the bad guys show up and try to lock everyone up again.

Originally posted by Walkin'Ghost GER:

You can join amish people

I think they are very religious!

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No, simply an obligation to accept cash.

An obligation to accept applications from authorities in person or by letter.

Or to be able to put your own money under your pillow or in your gun safe.

There's nothing stopping people.