I'm sad to see that the reason most stand to benefit from this wasn't mentioned at all in the article: privacy.
Yes, it's good also because this will allow people who don't have bank accounts to still buy food. The article cites some statistics about how
colored people people of color tend to use more cash. But what about the statistic that matters here: how many don't have bank accounts or credit cards? I'm guessing almost zero (exception being the homeless population). Not that we should ignore them or that this shouldn't be a motivation as well, but the article seems like it's trying to lead us to believe there are tons and tons of black people that don't have bank accounts or at least one credit card.
Reminds me of the controversy around requiring ID to vote a few years back. And people arguing it was discriminatory against black people.
Because black people don't have IDs? I saw a video on youtube interviewing people in Harlem about this and they were like "who told you we don't have IDs?"
I feel like a lot of these articles are written by people who have never even seen a black person before.
(Edited 1 minute later.)
I also am wary of electronic payment because it makes it too easy to get screwed by some fucking fee somewhere in the chain