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First of all, the businesses I’m talking about are already pushing the 2% fee on to the customer if you pay via card. Secondly, they throw tantrums even if you ask them to make a bank transfer instead. It’s funny when a small corner store is more willing to accept electronic payments than a multistory electronics market. Lastly, all these tax evading mfers get 0 sympathy from me. For all its faults, the government has launched multiple drives to bring these aholes under tax net by offering them ridiculous incentives yet they refuse to, facing 0 reprecussions, while people like me, the salaried, are getting raw-dogged by everyone.
I live in Pakistan and we have been going through a terrible economic turmoil. On top of indirect taxes, the salaries of average people are taxed like crazy. Meanwhile, the businesses refuse to even come under the tax net. While inflation and currency devaluation are going crazy, and the government has been begging IMF for a bailout, government departments did mental gymnastics to provide relaxation to 5,000 out of 10,000 big retailers tax relief with bullsh*t reasons like size of their brick and mortar shops. I’m so sick of all of this. Sorry for the trauma dump. I’ve been incredibly frustrated.
That’s cool. :) Good luck.
Unfortunate and sad. I’m glad fediverse is a thing and getting traction now. It was hard for me to think how one can compete with the giants of the internet and it was evident that smaller organisations don’t stand a chance but thousands of people and small orgs hosting manageable instances that talk to each other is an amazing idea. I hope the fediverse becomes the mainstream way of experiencing the internet.
I’ve just blocked all memes communities for now. It was funny the first few times but it got old real quick.