Honestly, just WTF is going on with the world today? Achievements in a mobile app for ordering coffee, like this is some sort of weird mobile game you play. Is this what we are looking forward to in our future?
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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Can't afford a phone?
No discount for you!!
This is a discriminatory practice, and it's been going on for way too long. Every offender needs to be fined wildly for this shit.
"Yeah Tyler, you can get some free fries with your Big Mac that you're buying with your dad's credit card, because you have 100 mcpoints!"
Homeless man: please let me eat anything I am starving
It gets even worse, the federal government now only accepts applications for asylum through a mobile app
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/05/cbp-one-mobile-application-violates-the-rights-of-people-seeking-asylum-in-the-united-states/
That’s several orders of magnitude worse, fuck. Soon they’ll probably close the loop and consider owning a smartphone to be evidence that things aren’t so bad for you, and you don’t need asylum.
And NOT having a smartphone will be even more suspicious... "What are you trying to hide? you must have a smartphone hidden somewhere... where is it?"
Jesus fucking Christ.
yup and it particularly effects the elderly, the poor, the mentally challenged, folks from certain religious or social beliefs, and just folks with a certain amount of dignitity and self worth.
The last one is absolutely unacceptable. They have to draw the line somewhere. /s
Where did his screenshot show levels give a discount? It just looks like badges for number of drinks ordered. Something you could track on your own if you wanted.
The first badge is "Savings Starter", which implies that using the app is providing some sort of discount. The badges may not be directly tied to a discount but the app most certainly gives you one, that's how all of these things work.
The practice existed long before smart phones, they used to call them loyalty cards or memberships or something like that. You can go to pretty well any chain gas station for some kind of perks membership card where you get a free coffee for buying gas or whatever. The switch to it being done by apps is in part because it's easier, and they get more realtime and personal info.
Yes, but the barrier of entry was literacy.
https://swappa.com/catalog/type/phone?brand=&platform=&sort=price_low
Yes, but the price now is hardly more than that. Cheap tech leftovers are plentiful and I'm certainly not the only one who had a WiFi only phone for a while. Spend $40 for a cheap functional handheld and you can get all the apps if inclined. Can probably even find plenty for free if you look about.
In some places, people also give out phones to the needy because of how cheap they are. Somehow my mom's boyfriend got one despite him not being poor...I think it's because he's old and retired.