I’VE just been alerted to a con job that I’ve been complicit in since Covid.
Back then we were told you would die a painful death from handling cash and we believed it.
Well I believed it anyway and have duly turned to the phone and cards.
But now an audit of my account by my better half has alerted me to the cost of this blind acceptance.
It turns out every time I go and buy my almond soy cinnabon skim latte I’m not just paying my $7 but an extra few cents on that transaction.
Then there’s every single other transaction through the day.
I’ve done a deep dive audit and I’m genuinely shocked.
Can’t these retailers just price it in and let me drink my gross beverages in bourgeois ignorance.
I went to a cafe on the weekend and they had the good sense to have a little sign explaining that’s what they’re doing.
Even if it’s like having to read the small print at the end of a contract, the warning was there. I’m changing, literally. Cash only.
Budgets and bubs
What is it about the state government and kids. First they’re saving them from drowning with a few free swimming lessons, then they’re saving them from their parents by offering free kindy.
That’s $645 million so parents get to work longer, be more exhausted and pay more taxes. Is it the equivalent of having an extra child for your country?
